Samuel Moreno-Carranza, age seven, was injured after his mother fired a rifle inside church and police responded, killing her

A boy who was shot in the head at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch on 11 February has lost “a portion of his frontal lobe” while recovering at the hospital, according to his grandmother.

In a Facebook post three days after the shooting, Walli Carranza said her seven-year-old grandson, Samuel Moreno-Carranza, “has lost a major part of what makes us who we are” after “half of his right skull [had] to be surgically removed during two surgeries done in less than 24 hours”. Samuel had endured “cardiac arrest multiple times, and no one can determine whether he has significant brain activity because his scalp tissue is too friable” to let doctors attach electroencephalogram wires to him, Carranza added in a post that doubled as a criticism of the US’s lack of meaningful gun control.

      • Flying Squid
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        1711 months ago

        Dude. He was seven. How much did you know about the world when you were seven? You probably mostly knew what your parents told you.

        The kid had plenty of time to realize the church was lying to him. He probably never will now.

      • @Rapidcreek
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        011 months ago

        Nope. It was something about becoming a republican

        • littleblue✨
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          811 months ago

          Hey, at least you weren’t wrong about it being tasteless, eh? Lookit them downvotes. (It’s alright, I have intrusive heckling thoughts, too, and sometimes it helps to point them out for what they are: kinda deflates their power in a way, to laugh at them instead of with them)

        • @Agrivar
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          111 months ago

          So, like “in poor taste,” but also “totally spot on” at the same time? Yeah, I have those thoughts sometimes too.