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apple says it offered help to the FBI regarding the recent Texas Church shooting on Saturday November 5th a gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in southern Springs Texas he killed 26 people and injured 20 others the gunman died later that day due to a self-inflicted gunshot to the head on Tuesday the FBI held a news conference saying it had obtained the gunman's phone and was sending it to the FBI crime lab in Quantico Virginia because law enforcement located in Texas could not unlock the phone while the model of the phone was not disclosed reports say it was an iPhone a source tells Reuters that knew the FBI nor any state or local enforcement attempted to contact Apple during a crucial 48 hour period if the gunman's phone was an iPhone and it was locked using touch ID the phone may have been unlocked using the gunman's fingerprint within 48 hours of the last time the person unlocked his phone this also requires the phone was not restarted or powered off if a fingerprint is not used to unlock the phone after that 48 hour window a passcode is required to unlock the phone Apple issued a statement saying our team immediately reached out to the FBI after learning from their press conference on Tuesday that investigators were trying to access a mobile phone we offered assistance and said we would expedite any legal process they send us the FBI and Apple had issues in the past when Apple refused to comply with a court order to decrypt the phone belonging to the shooter in the 2015 San Bernardino attack for more coverage check out cnet.com Amaya's actor