Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church shooting leaves child shot, suspect shooter down

According to Texas authorities, a child was shot and the suspected shooter is down.

The shooting occurred Sunday afternoon in the Houston, Texas megachurch.

Alan Rosen, a constable of Harris County said the child who was shot is between the ages of 5 and 9, but provided no other information.

The latest report at around 2:00 p.m. was announced by Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez on X. The shooting was also reported in the Spanish language church service which was to start at the time.

"Correction: shooter is down," Gonzalez wrote on social media. "But it does not appear that@HCSOTexas deputies fired shots; other agencies fired."

"We continue to assist in a methodical/thorough search of the complex."

At around 2:10 p.m. CT, Gonzalez said that there were "possible shots fired at/or around Lakewood Church." Less than an hour after that announcement, Texas law enforcement confirmed that the scene was Lakewood Church.

"The active scene is at Lakewood Church on the SW Fwy service road. Traffic is very heavy near and on the service road," Houston Police Department wrote on X.

"Please avoid the area and use alternate routes. We have PIOs en route to the scene and will provide any and all updates here."

Police later advised that anyone with missing family members should head to the "family reunification location" at Greenway Plaza's Life Time Fitness gym.

Lakewood Church confirmed on X that there was a shooting and asked that users "please pray for Lakewood and our community."

In a press release sent to local outlets, Governor Greg Abbott called the shooting "tragic."

"Our hearts are with those impacted by today’s tragic shooting and the entire Lakewood Church community in Houston," Abbott said. "Places of worship are sacred."

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911 operator who hung up on calls gets sentenced to ten big ones in jail

"I don't got time for this garbage"

Harris County, Texas -- She hung up on emergency calls "thousands" fo times. Maybe people died because of her stone cold insolence to people in crisis, maybe they didn't, but Crenshanda Williams, the Harris County 911 operator, finally got what was coming to her: a jail sentence. 

Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls Wednesday after "systematically" hanging up on calls sent by residents in crisis, KTRK reported.

Yes, Williams will be spending the next ten years days in the slammer and will have to spend the following 18 months on probation. It could have been worse--the judge could have given her a full two weeks, but since the prosecution couldn't prove if anyone died from her hang ups, they gave her a break.

Williams was said to have had a high number of "short calls" which were 20 seconds or less. Prosecutors found she had hung up on "thousands" of calls.

An emergency call by Jim Moten told KTRK that he called in 2016 after observing two vehicles speeding on a highway where people had recently been killed in speeding accidents. He believed his call was dropped after a few seconds.

Moten said that before he could finish his explanation of the emergency, Williams reportedly said, "Ain't nobody got time for this. For real."

She also hung up on a caller reporting a violent robbery, according to The Chronicle. 

Williams reportedly spent about 18 months at the Houston Emergency Center [mis]handling 911 calls but got caught and in August 2016 was fired.

"The citizens of Harris County rely on 911 operators to dispatch help in their time of need," said Assistant District Attorney Lauren Reeder in a statement. "When a public servant betrays the community's trust and breaks the law, we have a responsibility to hold them criminally accountable."

Remember, Williams will be spending ten entire days locked up in a cage, with no decent food, no justice, no peas. 

Ten. Entire. Days.

Her lawyer, Franklin Bynum, argued that Williams "was going through a hard time in her life" when she hung up on the "thousands" of calls over the year, and said "punishing her doesn't do anything to fix the problems that still exist at the emergency center."

Whatever her "problems" are, Bynum didn't say. But obviously, they have more to do with her internal problems than her external ones.

Williams was taken away in imaginary chains and will be sent to prison where hopefully she will learn to properly let loose and yammer.


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Suspected coward captured, mommy claims his innocence

The 'alleged man' suspected of killing Deputy Darren Goforth, a Texas county sheriff's deputy, has been captured by a SWAT team. The scumcrumpet was taken into custody at Pine Falls and Sunny Ridge in Harris County, Texas; they were led there by a tip.

Deputy Goforth, 47, was simply pumping gas into his police cruiser at around 8:30 pm when the cowardly dirtbag approached him from behind, firing at him, then added multiple rounds into his dying body. The bullets struck him once in the head and three times in the back.

Goforth died at the scene, the Harris County Sheriff's Office spokesman Ryan Sullivan told the AP.

No motive was known for the cowardly ambush but an educated guess, that is, a guess not inspired by liberal media sources, would be that it might have been due to the career Deputy Goforth pursued, and/or the fact that he was of the melanin-challenged race, that is, Caucasian. 

He was a 10-year veteran of the force and had a wife and two children.

Coward with a gun

Police described the suspect as a male with a dark complexion, about 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall wearing a white T-shirt and red shorts. He was driving a red maroon pickup truck with an extended bed. They posted the killer's photos from the security camera at the gas station, on Twitter.

The cops arrived at the suspect's location on Crystal Lake in Copperfield around 2:30 am seeing the same red truck. It was later learned that the home belonged to his so-called mother, a woman who apparently failed in her child-rearing attempts. She didn't want to show her face but said, "My son is innocent. I was in the house with him, so when that happened, my son was home."

Fox News originally said that their local TV affiliate, KRIV, told them the suspect's mother had assisted law enforcement in the capture of her son. This turned out to be false.

Questions: how did she know when the shooting happened? Did the SWAT team let her in on the information, or did she see it on TV?

More questions: was this shooter inspired by Black Lives Matter? Will Al Sharpton get involved? Will those of Caucasian persuasion start rioting?


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