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Report: Female Church Shooter Formerly Identified as ‘Jeffery’; Free Palestine Written on Gun

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By Breitbart. The female shooter who attacked Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church has been identified as 36-year-old Genesse Moreno, who KHOU 11 noted “previously identified as Jeffery Escalante.”

KHOU 11 indicated that they discovered the references to Jeffery Escalante during a Texas Department of Public Safety Records search on Moreno.

The station also found her prior arrest records, including “arrests…[for] failure to stop and give information, assault of a public servant, assault causing bodily injury, forgery, possession of marijuana, theft, evading arrest unlawful carrying weapon.” . . .

(Read more from “Report: Female Church Shooter Formerly Identified as ‘Jeffery’” HERE)

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Lakewood Church Shooter Identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno; ‘Palestine’ Written on Gun

By Fox News. Police in Houston, Texas, have identified the shooter who opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church on Sunday as Genesse Ivonne Moreno, Fox News has confirmed.

Moreno, originally from El Salvador, who had a lengthy criminal record, also previously used the name Jeffrey Escalante Moreno, investigators said. The shooter was killed after off-duty police officers at the church responded to the incident. Police said two people were injured – a 57-year-old man and the child who accompanied the shooter. . .

The preliminary reporting also indicated that the message “Free Palestine” was written on the rifle; investigators said later it was just “Palestine.”

Moreno, 36, had a criminal history including convictions for assaulting a police officer in 2009 and forgery in 2010.

Members of the FBI, the Texas Rangers, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the Conroe and Houston Police Departments were investigating a property Monday in Conroe, north of Houston, that was believed to be Moreno’s residence, KPRC reported. (Read more from “Lakewood Church Shooter Identified as Genesse Ivonne Moreno; ‘Palestine’ Written on Gun” HERE)

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Child Critically Wounded In Church Shooting Is Son Of Shooter, ‘Anti-Semitic Writing’ Recovered: Police

By Daily Wire. The Houston Police Department confirmed Monday that the woman who opened fire at Lakewood Church in Houston had a documented “mental health history” and her son was the child injured in the shooting. Authorities also obtained “anti-Semitic writing” during their investigation into the shooting.

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 press conference Monday afternoon, Houston PD Commander Chris Hassig said that Moreno “was put under an emergency detention order” in 2016 and “has a mental health history that is documented through us and through interviews with family members.”

The commander added that authorities recovered “anti-Semitic writing” and they believe there was “a familial dispute that has taken place between her ex-husband and her ex-husband’s family.”

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 “fighting for his life” in critical condition, and a 57-year-old man who was also shot has since been released from the hospital. . .

The shooting at Lakewood Church comes amid growing concern about recent mass shootings carried out by trans-identifying and “non-binary” shooters. (Read more from “Child Critically Wounded in Church Shooting Is Son of Shooter, ‘Anti-Semitic Writing’ Recovered: Police” HERE)

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Hero Sgt. Ron Helus Called ‘A True Cop’s Cop,’ Died Bravely Confronting Thousand Oaks Shooter

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Several hundred people were inside the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, Wednesday night when a gunman attacked the venue, killing 12 people including a police officer.

The officer’s name was Sgt. Ron Helus, a 29-year veteran of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office. Helus had intended to retire next year. Instead, he died heroically.

Ventura County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Garo Karedjian said Helus was a first responder to the shooting, which began around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night. The sheriff’s office received multiple calls of shots fired at the bar after the hooded gunman began his massacre.

At least 13 people were killed, including the gunman. Somewhere between 10 and 15 more were injured.

Helus and a California Highway Patrol officer responded in minutes. Helus reportedly called his wife before entering the building to confront the shooter. The shooter fired upon the police officers when they entered the bar. Helus was hit several times. He died in an area hospital Thursday morning.

At a press conference, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said that Helus died as “a hero.”

“He gave his all … he went in to save lives, to save other people,” Dean said. He added that Helus was a “hard-working, dedicated Sheriff’s Sergeant.”

“A true cop’s cop,” Ventura County Sheriff’s Sgt. Eric Buschow told CNN Thursday morning. “I don’t think there’s anything more heroic than what he did.”

“He went in there to save lives. He took decisive action, and it’s just a tragic loss for us,” Buschow said.
“This was in his blood. He had just a natural instinct for going after crooks, and he did it with enthusiasm, with a great deal of intelligence.”

Profile pictures from Helus’ Facebook page, now memorialized, show he had a love for the outdoors and fishing.

“He loved spending time with his son,” Buschow added. “They would go fishing up in the Sierras together. My heart goes out to his family — I can’t imagine what they’re going through right now.”

Helus was an accomplished firearms instructor and competitive shooter. He earned his master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma. (For more from the author of “Hero Sgt. Ron Helus Called ‘a True Cop’s Cop,’ Died Bravely Confronting Thousand Oaks Shooter” please click HERE)

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Grandma Shoots Home Intruder, Leaves Him in Hospital

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A 70-year-old grandmother took matters into her own hands Saturday, shooting an intruder who attempted to break into her Philadelphia home – and now the man is in the hospital.

Maxine Thompson awoke on May 5 around 4:30 a.m. to someone banging on her door and shattering glass, attempting to enter her home, she explained . . .

“First, I thought I was dreaming, and then, I looked out the window, outside. I was still hearing the banging, banging, banging, so I yelled to whoever, ‘Who’s that on my door? Get off my door; get off my door,’” Thompson told Philadelphia’s Fox 29 . . .

“I shot at him. He turned around and he ran; and when he ran, I ran down the steps behind him and shot at him some more,” she calmly explained. “‘Kill him before he kills me.’ That’s what was going through my mind.”

The intruder fled the scene and climbed to the top of a car wash in the neighborhood. Then he called police and reported that he’d been shot, according to investigators. The man was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital. (Read more from “Grandma Shoots Home Intruder, Leaves Him in Hospital” HERE)

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‘Muslim’ Shooter Kills 3

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Police hunted 10 hours Wednesday for an armed felon identified as Radee Labeeb Prince, 38, who is suspected of shooting three people to death and leaving two more critically wounded after 9 a.m. at a business park outside Baltimore.

He is also a suspect in another shooting in Wilmington, Delaware, that took place two hours later. The Wilmington shooting happened around 11 a.m. at 28th Street Auto Sales and Service in the 2800 block of Northeast Boulevard.

Prince was being hunted for what police called a “targeted attack” on employees at the Emmorton Business Park in Edgewood, Hartford County, Maryland.

The FBI issued a statement just after 7:20 p.m. Wednesday that it had caught the accused killer in Delaware. (Read more from “‘Muslim’ Shooter Kills 3” HERE)

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Casino Security Video Shows Vegas Shooter in 2011

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Mandalay Bay shooter Stephen Paddock may have been a high-roller, but he lost a slip-and-fall lawsuit against a Nevada casino in 2014 — and still owed $270 in court fees when he killed at least 59 people Sunday.

Security video from the Cosmopolitan Hotel shows Paddock slipping and falling on Oct. 30, 2011, as he walked from a hotel shop towards a high-stakes area in the casino. Paddock said he had slipped in a puddle of liquid and sued the hotel in 2012, initially asking for $100,000, according to the attorney for the hotel, Marty Kravitz.

“They always ask for a lot more than they can get, but he got nothing,” said Kravitz. (Read more from “Casino Security Video Shows Vegas Shooter in 2011” HERE)

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San Bernardino Shooter’s Mother Active in US Branch of Pro-Caliphate Islamic Group

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Rafia Farook, the mother of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim organization that promotes the establishment of a caliphate and has ties to a radical Pakistani political group called Jamaat-e-Islami.

Farook’s affiliation with ICNA was revealed on Friday when MSNBC and other new outlets scoured the Farooks’ apartment in Redlands, Cal. An MSNBC reporter found a certificate of appreciation presented to Safia Farook last summer by ICNA’s sisters’ wing.

Malik reportedly posted a comment to Facebook during the attack stating her allegiance to ISIS. Farook is also believed to have communicated with known terrorists based overseas.

Though ICNA has not been named as a target in the ongoing investigation into Wednesday’s attack, the group has been associated with many others who have engaged in terrorism or plotted to do so.

Al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki has spoken at the group’s events. He spoke at an ICNA event in Baltimore in 2002, though the group has said that al-Awlaki was not radicalized at that time. Al-Awlaki exchanged emails with Nidal Hasan, the Army major who killed 13 people in a terrorist attack at Fort Hood in Nov. 2009. Al-Awlaki was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011 in Yemen. (Read more from “San Bernardino Shooter’s Mother Active in US Branch of Pro-Caliphate Islamic Group” HERE)

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