A mother entered Joel Osteen’s megachurch with her son and opened fire. The boy is now fighting for his life
Lakewood Church, home to famed pastor Joel Osteen’s congregation, draws more than 45,000 worshippers through its doors each week.
It’s one of the United States’ largest Christian churches, seating around 16,000 congregants in the vast auditorium at any given time.
Now, it’s also a crime scene after it became the sight of a terrifying shooting over the weekend.
On Sunday 11 February, worshippers were preparing to go into its Spanish-speaking service when a woman with her seven-year-old son entered the church. She was armed with an AR-15 rifle and started shooting.
The following day, police identified the shooter as Genesse Ivonne Moreno – a 36-year-old woman who allegedly carried out the attack using an assault-style rifle with the word “Palestine” across it.
Two off-duty officers confronted Moreno in the hallway just as she entered the church and she was killed in an exchange of gunfire.
The young child, who
