Three days after a 7-yearold boy was shot in the head at Houston’s Lakewood Church, his grandmother reported that surgeons had removed parts of the frontal lobe of his brain and of his skull. The boy, Samuel, had “lost a major part of what makes us who we are,” Walli Carranza wrote in a Feb. 14 Facebook post. Carranza blamed the tragedy on “the very same legislators who claim to be ‘pro-life’ (and) believe that unbridled gun rights matter and the right to life does not! Insanity!”
Carranza’s son is Samuel’s father and the ex-husband of the boy’s mother, Genesse Ivonne Moreno, 36. Authorities say Moreno entered the megachurch with Samuel just before its weekly Spanish-language service was to begin on Feb. 11. Moreno began firing an AR-style rifle, officials said, and law enforcement officers working security at the church returned fire, killing Moreno. Authorities have not disclosed who fired the shots that wounded Samuel and a 57-year-old man who was shot in the leg and was treated and released from a hospital.
