Who Is Johnnie Langendorff? Texas Man Chased Down Church Shooter

A Texas man was being hailed as a hero after he helped put an end to Sunday’s church massacre. Johnnie Langendorff chased gunman Devin Kelley in his car after Kelley opened fire on the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, killing 26 people inside.

Langendorff was on his way to his girlfriend's house Sunday morning when he saw Kelley and another man, a neighbor, exchanging gunfire outside of the church. The unidentified neighbor then got into Langendorff’s truck after he pulled over.

“I pulled up to the intersection where the shooting happened,” Langendorff told KSAT. “I saw two men exchanging gunfire, the other being the citizen of the community.”

The neighbor approached Langendorff after the suspect fled.

“The neighbor with the rifle came to my truck and he opened my door and said, ‘He just shot up the church,’ and got in,” Langendorff told “Good Morning America” Monday. “He said ‘’Chase him,’ so that’s what I did. I just chased him.”

The unidentified neighbor was described by eyewitness Kevin Jordan as someone who would do anything for anyone.

“If I wasn’t for him, the guy wouldn’t have stopped,” Jordan told KENS-TV.

Langendorff and the neighbor then chased the suspect, reaching speeds of up to 95 miles per hour.

“It was an act now, ask questions later kind of deal,” said Langendorff. “It wasn’t something I needed to freak out about. The situation was, in a sense, under control and as long as I’m behind the wheel, I’m perfectly fine”

The pair pursued Kelley down Route 539, weaving around traffic before eventually coming to a slowdown, where Kelley lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a ditch.

“That is when I put the vehicle in park and I was still on the phone to dispatch [police],” Langendorff said. “The other gentlemen jumped out and has his rifle drawn on him. He didn’t move after that. We led police to him … From the time we actually stopped, it was about five to seven minutes. The police arrived and then they pushed us back and they took care of the rest. I didn’t see anything after that.”

Kelley killed at least 26 people and injured many more before apparently taking his own life.

“At this time we believe that he had a self-inflicted gunshot wound,” Wilson County Sheriff Joe Tackitt told CBS News Monday morning.