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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA woman entered a Houston megachurch with a child and began shooting. Here's what we know
Updates on the shooter.
The strangest part was she went in between Spanish language service with a AR-15 with Free Palistine on it. How can they stop a war?
CNN
A woman who walked into a popular Texas megachurch Sunday afternoon with a long gun and a young child opened fire before she was killed by law enforcement officers on scene. The gunfire left the child in critical condition and another man injured, officials said.
Authorities are now probing the shooting at televangelist and pastor Joel Osteens Lakewood Church roughly 6 miles from downtown Houston.
The woman, estimated to be between 30 and 35 years old, entered the church shortly before 2 p.m. wearing a trench coat and backpack and opened fire, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said in a Sunday afternoon news conference.
The shooter died at the scene after two law enforcement officers intervened and she was shot, Finner said.
The young child was hit during the shooting and is in the hospital in critical condition, the police chief said. Its unclear who fired the shot that injured the child. CNN has reached out to police for more information.
Police have not shared details about a possible motive in the shooting or said what the womans relationship is to the child who accompanied her. The injured man was shot in the leg and sought treatment at a hospital, Finner said.
The gunfire unfolded while the church was in between services and preparing to go into a Spanish service, Osteen said in Sundays news conference.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/12/us/joel-osteen-lakewood-church-shooting-monday/index.html
EYESORE 9001
(27,611 posts)Perhaps she arrived too early for the Spanish-language service. Then again her weapon had free Palestine on it, so who can tell anything yet?
efhmc
(15,031 posts)chowder66
(9,877 posts)intheflow
(29,047 posts)Didnt think the cops would shoot if she was holding a kid.
Demovictory9
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