Houston media: Megachurch shooter appears to be transgender woman
Multiple Houston press outlets are reporting Monday morning that the woman who entered Joel and Victoria Osteen’s mega Lakewood Church in southwest Houston on Sunday armed with a long rifle previously identified as a male.
Multiple independent sources told KHOU reporter Jeremy Rogalski that Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36, who had begun firing almost upon entering was killed by two off-duty officer law enforcement officers, who were working at Lakewood Church.
One is a Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agent who is 38-years-old with four years of service. The other off-duty officer is an Houston Police Department officer who is 28-years-old with two years of service.
The shooter walked into the Houston megachurch with a 5-year-old child while wearing a trench coat and carrying a backpack that she reportedly announced had explosives inside.
