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.
Sounds like they were just gun owners
Other articles I’ve seen said that they were two off-duty cops working security for the church.
https://apnews.com/article/church-shooting-joel-osteen-texas-ea557401f2eef247020e34297159536a
I’m not sure if you’re saying they obviously didn’t own the guns they were firing - hard to prove and little difference - or that professional gun-users with standards of accuracy and control under stressful situations as part of their training and job are somehow more likely to shoot innocents than a bunch of randos with shooty-pow-pow fetishes.
Yeah I can see that… But cops being bad at shooting is kinda just expected at this point.
Why does a church hire security?!