Lakewood Church shooter identified after police descend on Conroe home

Chron.com ^ | 2/12-2024 | Allyson Ackerman, Kennedy Sessions

[tuffydoodle]

The shooter who entered Lakewood Church on Sunday with a long rifle and child in tow has been identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, according to multiple sources.

The 36-year-old previously identified as Jeffrey Escalante and had prior arrests for assault, forgery, marijuana possession, theft, evading and unlawful carrying of a weapon, according to KHOU's Jeremy Rogalski. Accoring to a Texas Department of Public Safety records search, her criminal report dates back to 2005.

Members of the FBI, Conroe Police Department, Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, Houston Police Department and Texas Rangers arrived at a Conroe home hours after the Sunday shooting to collect evidence and try to piece together the main piece of the puzzle. The shooter walked into the Houston mega-church with a 5-year-old while wearing a trench coat and carrying a backpack that she reportedly announced had explosives inside. Explosives were not found in her possession or in her vehicle.

[COBOL2Java]

Excuse my confusion: was it born with a p*nis or a v*g*na?

I'd say it still has an "XY" chromosome.

[EnquiringMind]

Bon a male, still a male. Why are they calling him “she”?

[dfwgator]

Innie or Outie?

[EnquiringMind]

Sorry, guess I am wrong. Very confusing…….

[353FMG]

Who was the poor 5-year old kid? We know nothing about him as he is in a critical condition in hospital.

[Mr. Lucky]

Well played.

[Big Red Badger]

Sounds like a Rock solid church!
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“I Am Who I Am”-— God told Moses

and that’s good enough for me to understand that God is Sovereign!
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To God Be All Glory!

[RetiredArmy]

AMEN, AMEN, AMEN!!!!!! :-)

[StAnDeliver]

Innie.

I like how the longer the thread went, the more insistent the newbies above your post, were demanding that is was a man. LOFL.

C'mon people, rule of thirds, eyes too close together for a man and no brow ridge.

It was a genetic woman, the birth mother of the poor 7-year-old who ain't gonna make it.

"The shooter has been identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, who previously used the name Jeffrey and has a lengthy criminal record going back to 2005, including assault, weapons, marijuana possession and forgery charges.

Moreno used several identities under both genders. and it's unclear what gender she identified as. However, police said on Thursday she is believed to be the biological mother of the seven-year-old child critically injured in the shooting.

Moreno entered the megachurch with a seven-year-old boy just before a Spanish-language service was set to begin. She was wearing a trench coat and backpack, and carrying a yellow rope that 'appeared to be a detonation cord.'

She sprayed 'some type of substance on the ground' and started firing before two off-duty cops who were working at the megachurch shot her dead, police said.

The child was also critically injured, and is not expected to survive the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office told the Houston Chronicle. Police said on Monday they believe she is the biological mother of the child, who was shot in the head.

Chief Finner said after the woman began shooting, both officers 'engaged' her and the woman was killed.

It was not clear where Osteen was at the time but he joined police at a news conference afterward and said the church is 'devastated.'

But he added that the shooting could have been much worse if it had happened during the larger 11am service.

Guilty!

[StAnDeliver]

Osteen probably in a safe room under a pile of $100 bills and quacking like Scrooge McDuck.

[keats5]

Who takes their kid to their mass shooting?!

[luvie]

Trans for sure. Deranged for sure. Evil for sure. Dead for sure. Good.

[luvie]

Someone who is evil. I’m glad he’s dead.

[luvie]

Right on all accounts.

[luvie]

I thought they said it was a woman

A man playing dress-up.

[ealgeone]

The 36-year-old previously identified as Jeffrey Escalante and had prior arrests for assault, forgery, marijuana possession, theft, evading and unlawful carrying of a weapon, according to KHOU's Jeremy Rogalski. Accoring to a Texas Department of Public Safety records search, her criminal report dates back to 2005.

Wait...with that record she can't own a gun....oh, wait. Laws are for honest people.

[Paladin2]

There are no shortage of “reports” about this incident on the radio today.

Always with the “her”, “she”, etc.

It’s so lame.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Osteen probably in a safe room under a pile of $100 bills and quacking like Scrooge McDuck.”

I laughed WAY too hard at that. So, THANKS! :)

[HollyB]

She’s from El Salvador and the id says ‘non Hispanic’
Total BS

[SaveFerris]

(Jeffrey Escalante, but he pretends he is female)

Oh, like many of Democrat Joe Biden’s appointees?