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.

  • @PoliticalAgitator
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    610 months ago

    He won’t and may already be functionally dead. The chance to save any of these people evaporated a long time ago. It was deemed “not profitable”.

    • @[email protected]
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      -110 months ago

      You’re right. The people who support the cause she had emblazoned on her gun don’t do shit fuck all if it means more than standing next to a flag and posting on social media.