Female shooter dead, child wounded at Lakewood megachurch in Houston

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Everyone is focused on the shooter.

Has anyone found out who the kid belonged to?
Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said at a Monday news briefing. He said he didn't consider it a "security breach."

Finner said he didn't know who shot Moreno's 7-year-old child, who remains hospitalized.

Chief Finner said the deceased shooter was the "biological parent of the child."
 

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From a Houston news outlet:

https://www.khou.com/article/news/c...oter/285-dc80c9f7-4728-4016-bb34-574582f50f4b

If the article is accurate, it seems like there were several events in the shooters past that would legally keep the shooter from buying or possessing a firearm. Any legal eagles want to weigh in on the shooter’s rap sheet? Seems like several of those could be felonies…and an EOD…

From the article:
“Moreno had a long criminal history dating back to 2005 that included arrests for assault of a public servant, assault causing bodily injury, forgery, possession of marijuana, theft, evading arrest and unlawful carrying weapon.”

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“HPD Homicide Commander Christopher Hassig said she was put under emergency detention by HPD in 2016, the same year her son was born.
"We do believe that she does have a mental health history that is documented through us and through interviews with family members,” Hassig said.
Despite the mental health issues and criminal background, Moreno was able to buy the AR-15 in December.”
 

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From a Houston news outlet:

https://www.khou.com/article/news/c...oter/285-dc80c9f7-4728-4016-bb34-574582f50f4b

If the article is accurate, it seems like there were several events in the shooters past that would legally keep the shooter from buying or possessing a firearm. Any legal eagles want to weigh in on the shooter’s rap sheet? Seems like several of those could be felonies…and an EOD…

From the article:
“Moreno had a long criminal history dating back to 2005 that included arrests for assault of a public servant, assault causing bodily injury, forgery, possession of marijuana, theft, evading arrest and unlawful carrying weapon.”

And

“HPD Homicide Commander Christopher Hassig said she was put under emergency detention by HPD in 2016, the same year her son was born.
"We do believe that she does have a mental health history that is documented through us and through interviews with family members,” Hassig said.
Despite the mental health issues and criminal background, Moreno was able to buy the AR-15 in December.”
For starters, being arrested for a crime and being convicted of a crime aren't the same thing. It could've been that she was a suspect but was exonerated (e.g, she matched a description but had an alibi) for some of the arrests, or there could've been insufficient evidence to file the charges, or she could've taken a plea bargain where she was convicted of a misdemeanor instead of a felony, or they could've all been misdemeanor complaints.

The part about the emergency detention doesn't necessarily matter for NICS--she would've needed to appear before the judge and be "adjudicated mentally deficient," which doesn't appear to have been the case.

There's also the possibility that any relevant legal action (felony convictions) weren't reported to the Feds, but I wouldn't expect that to be the case in a municipality the size of Houston.

There's certainly a lot of smoke in her background, but apparently no fire.
 

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