Couple who survived Texas massacre recalls moments after Devin Kelley entered the church

He targeted the crying children.

Gunman Devin Kelley fired point-blank at frightened babies as he made his way through the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a couple who survived the attack recalled.

Joaquin Ramirez made eye contact with Amanda Pomeroy, the 14-year-old daughter of the church’s pastor, screaming in fear.

He told ABC affiliate KSAT that he signaled for her not to make any noise, because Kelley was shooting at those screaming in fear.

Amanda was killed during Kelley’s carnage.

His wife, Roseanne Solis, was wounded when Kelley began firing his Ruger AR-556 into the small church from the outside.

“I hear firecrackers popping. Ta-ta-ta,” she told the news channel. “Everybody started screaming, yelling. Everyone got down, crawling under wherever they could hide.”

The couple took cover, bloodied and in shock, watching the hail of bullets over their heads.

Then everything stopped for a moment as Kelley went into the church.

He was decked out in tactical gear, wearing a black facemask featuring a white skull, authorities said. Police found 15 empty magazines — holding 30 rounds each — at the scene.

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“I thought it was the police when he went inside because everyone got real quiet,” Solis told KSAT. “Everyone was saying ‘Be quiet. It's him. It's him.’”

That’s when Kelley yelled, “Everybody die (expletive).”

Ramirez recalled Kelley went first for the audio and video crew that recorded the church’s sermon and uploaded them online.

Kelley then made his way down the aisle, shooting into the pews filled with frightened church-goers.

Ramirez said he prayed, “because I could see death.”

Solis said about 25 children were in the church at the time.

Kelley’s youngest victim was 18 months old, and his oldest was 77 years old.

The wait was so long for an ambulance, the couple said, that Ramirez and Solis drove themselves to the hospital.

"The Lord saved me because I know it was my last day," Solis said she thought at the time.