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Touching new images capture the emotional reunion between the two heroes who helped stop and chase down the Texas church shooter.

A tearful Stephen Willeford and Johnnie Langendorff embraced at a vigil for the massacre’s victims in Sutherland Springs on Tuesday night — before locking arms with other mourners and praying.

Willeford, a neighbor of the First Baptist Church, grabbed his rifle and ran over to the house of worship barefoot when he heard gunman Devin Kelley firing at the congregation Sunday.

The former National Rifle Association instructor fired at Kelley, causing the madman to stop the slaughter and flee in his truck — so Willeford then flagged down Langendorff’s car and the pair chased after Kelley while feeding info to 911.

But as they neared the alleged killer, he sped up, hit a stop sign and flipped his truck into a ditch. He appears to have shot himself in the head before police arrived, authorities say.

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