Lakewood Church shooting: HPD investigator shares updated timeline on events that led to shooting

good afternoon I'm Christopher hassig Commander HPD homicide also leader of our special investigations unit last name H SSI I just want to talk about the investigative steps uh where we're at what we've accomplished so far and what we're going to be doing moving forward all right please be mindful we are approximately 24 hours into this investigation it's very fluid and the investigators under my special investigations unit have been working around the clock and gathering information this entire

time so Sunday yesterday February 11th uh at 1353 at 1:53 p.m. we had an individual pull up in front of Lakewood Church on the west side of the building off of Timmons she gets out of her white vehicle she opens the door pulls out the seven-year-old child out of the back seat as well as uh a bag that is with her she goes she confronts a security guard who lets her in along the west side of the building at 1355 pardon me 1:55 p.m. she immediately starts firing inside of the hallway on the west s

ide of Lakewood Church she's in the hall not in the sanctuary multiple rounds are fired by her at which point officer Moreno of the Houston Police Department working an approved extra job at the location as well as TABC agent Herrera return Fire And The Exchange is all there on the west side of the building in the hallway multiple shots are exchanged by all three she eventually falls to the ground seven-year-old child it falls to the ground as well from gunfire one uh gunshot wound to the head l

ike has been mentioned earlier today he is in critical condition at this time and uh at 1407 20:07 p.m. she is pronounced deceased by Houston fire department personnel other things that we know at this point in regards to the investigation our shooter is identified by driver's license as Jesy Moreno 36 years old Hispanic female there are some discrepancies we do have reports she used multiple aliases including Jeffrey Escalante so she has utilized both male and female names but through all of ou

r investigation to this point talking with individuals interviews documents Houston Police Department reports she has been identified this entire time as female she her and so uh we are identifying her as jenesy Moreno Hispanic female there were two weapons of hers recovered on the scene an Anderson Manufacturing AR-15 which was what she utilized to fire at the officers there was a sticker on the buttstock of the rifle that stay Palestine a sticker simply stated Palestine on the buttstock also w

ithin the possession of uh near her what she brought in according to video and she had in a bag was a 22 caliber rifle by Blue Line Solutions she had that she brought that in she did not fire that weapon we do have her vehicle we are in possession of that we will be processing that and see if there is more evidence we want to thank our federal and state partners for their assistance in helping process the scene we uh we have uncovered some items we do have some anti-semitic writings that we have

uncovered during this process but like I said we are 24 hours into it it is very uh new we are getting new information as the uh hours change and so we are going to be delving into that more but but we do want to stress that she acted alone we do believe this was what we term a a lone wolf lone suspect situation we do not believe this is part of a larger Nexus she is not part of a larger group or set of individuals we believe that jenness c Mareno acted alone we do have some facts that she was

uh put under an emergency detention order by Houston police officers uh we believe in 2016 uh we do believe that she does have a mental health history that is documented through us and through interviews with family members and we do want to state that uh through our investigation I mention anti-semitic writing we do believe that there was a familial dispute that has taken place between uh her ex-husband and her ex-husband's family and some of those individuals are of uh are Jewish so we believe

that that is might might possibly be where all of this stems from uh we ask anybody with information to please call the Houston homicide department 71330 3600 or Crim Stoppers at 713 222 tips tips if they have any information regarding Miss Moreno or anything that could assist us with this investigation thank you very much