<p>The Houston Police Department confirmed Monday that the woman who opened fire at Lakewood Church in Houston had a documented &#8220;mental health history&#8221; and her son was the child injured in the shooting. Authorities also obtained &#8220;anti-Semitic writing&#8221; during their investigation into the shooting.</p>
<p>On Sunday afternoon, 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno* walked into Lakewood Church in Houston with a long gun and a young child and opened fire before being shot dead by law enforcement at the scene. During a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2uQC_KX1bU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> Monday afternoon, Houston PD Commander Chris Hassig said that Moreno &#8220;was put under an emergency detention order&#8221; in 2016 and &#8220;has a mental health history that is documented through us and through interviews with family members.&#8221;</p>
<p>The commander added that authorities recovered &#8220;anti-Semitic writing&#8221; and they believe there was &#8220;a familial dispute that has taken place between her ex-husband and her ex-husband&#8217;s family.&#8221;</p>
<p>Houston PD Chief Troy Finner said Moreno was the biological mother of a 7-year-old child who was shot during an exchange of gunfire between Moreno and two off-duty law enforcement officers. Finner added that the child is &#8220;fighting for his life&#8221; in critical condition, and a 57-year-old man who was also shot has since been released from the hospital.</p>
<p>Moreno, a woman, previously identified as Jeffrey Escalante, according to Texas Department of Public Safety records. She had a criminal history extending back nearly two decades to 2005 that included arrests for failure to stop and give information, assault of a public servant, assault causing bodily injury, forgery, possession of marijuana, theft, evading arrest, and unlawful carrying of a weapon.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨 BREAKING: Lakewood Church shooter identified as a transgender, legal name Genesse Moreno but went by the name “Jeffrey.” 🚨 <a href="https://t.co/0gmgybgOLC">pic.twitter.com/0gmgybgOLC</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/SaraGonzalesTX/status/1757068047553007739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 12, 2024</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Moreno opened fire in Joel Osteen&#8217;s mega-church, using an AR-15 with &#8220;Palestine&#8221; written on it, and authorities believe she acted as a &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; and was &#8220;not a part of a larger group.&#8221;</p>
<p>The shooting at Lakewood Church comes amid growing concern about recent mass shootings carried out by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-christian-school-shooter-identified-as-transgender-authorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying</a> and “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colorado-shooter-identifies-as-non-binary-uses-they-them-pronouns-court-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">non-binary</a>” shooters. One of the most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-court-rules-that-parents-can-intervene-in-fight-over-release-of-nashville-shooters-manifesto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prominent cases</a> occurred last year when a woman who identified as a man entered a Christian school in Nashville and murdered three children and three adults before she was killed by responding police officers.</p>
<p>*<em>Reports on mass shootings typically do not name the shooter under Daily Wire policy, but in this case, the shooter’s name is a vital part of law enforcement records and thus necessary to the clear reporting of this story. </em></p>

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