Church Shooter Attended and Worshiped at Lakewood, Battled Schizophrenia, Says Rabbi Grandmother
The woman who opened fire at Lakewood Church before being shot by officers was a regular attendee and worshiped there, according to the former mother-in-law of the perpetrator.
Walli Carranza, a Jewish Rabbi, says that as soon as she heard the news of the shooting, “I suspected…that this could be my daughter-in-law.”
In an interview with KHOU news, Carranza explained that while she didn’t know the exact reason Genesse Moreno shot up Lakewood, the place where she worshiped and had given money to, she suspected it had to do with mental illness and the stress and frustration and custody battle with her ex-husband (who, not for nothing, is a convicted sex offender and pedophile.)
She had a particular kind of schizophrenia that caused her to become violent. She threatened her husband’s life, she threatened mine, she threatened to kill her own son and we still couldn’t get intervention….We asked for help from CPS. … We’ve asked for help from police and received it many times but she was still allowed to own guns,”
Walli echoed these statements in a Facebook post, defending the officers who killed Moreno and reiterating her mental illness, which police have confirmed.
No one may ever blame a police officer who carries out his or her rightful duty to save lives even if they are found responsible for shooting my grandson. The fault lies in a child protective services of Montgomery County and Harris County that refused to remove custody from a woman with known mental illness that was not being treated and with the state of Texas for not having strong red flag laws that would have prevented her from owning or possessing a gun
She also noted:
My daughter-in-law when she was taking medication for schizophrenia was a very sweet and loving woman. But mental illness is real illness and when family members seek emergency protections they’re not doing so for their own sake but for the sake of the person who is ill….. And to protect her child and society.”