The female gunman who attacked Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church has been identified by KHOU 11 as 36-year-old Janece Moreno. I got it. “Previously identified as Jeffrey Escalante.”
KHOU 11 said it discovered the reference to Jeffrey Escalante during a Texas Department of Public Safety records review regarding Moreno.
The department also found her past arrest record, which included “arrests…”[for] evading arrest for failure to stop and provide information, assault on a public servant, assault occasioning bodily harm, forgery, possession of marijuana, theft, and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Law enforcement records show Moreno, who goes by the name Jeffrey Escalante, has previous arrests for assault, forgery, marijuana possession, theft, fleeing and illegal weapon possession.
— Jeremy Rogalski (@JRogalskiKHOU) February 12, 2024
(Breitbart News tracked Texas Department of Public Safety records and found that one entry listed the name as “Jeffrey” instead of “Jeffrey.”)
Someone, presumably Moreno, had written “Liberate Palestine” on the gun she used in the attack. according to ABC News.
ABC News added, “However, the motive for Sunday afternoon’s shooting has not yet been determined.”
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