Two people were injured Sunday at a shooting at Texas Pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston.
One of the victims is a 5-year-old boy, who is in critical condition. The other is a 37-year-old male who was reportedly shot in the hip.
There were initial reports that the shooter also had an explosive device.
Police reportedly took down the shooter, reportedly a 35-year-old female, and later said they had yet to find any evidence of a bomb.
The child reportedly with the shooter and was struck in crossfire from two off-duty police officers who happened to be at the church.
“The active scene is at Lakewood Church,” the Houston Police Department wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in response to an earlier post the agency made about responding to reports of a shooting.
About a half hour before the Houston Police Department said the scene was active, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on X: “Info remains preliminary, as things remain dynamic. It is believed that a possible shooter is down, shot by one of our [deputies] on-scene. I’m enroute to the scene.”
