7-Year-Old Son of Lakewood Church Shooter Lost Part of Frontal Lobe After Suffering Gunshot Wound to Head

The child, Samuel Moreno-Carranza, “has lost a major part of what makes us who we are,” his grandmother said

The 7-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the shooting at Lakewood Church last Sunday lost part of his frontal lobe.

Samuel Moreno-Carranza, the son of the shooter, 36-year-old Genesse Moreno, “lost a major part of what makes us who we are.....a portion of his frontal lobe,” his grandmother, Walli Carranza, shared in a Wednesday Facebook post.

“Half of his right skull has to be surgically removed during two surgeries done in less than 24 hours,” Carranza wrote. “He was in cardiac arrest multiple times and no one can determine whether he has significant brain activity because his scalp tissue is too friable to allow the attachment of EEG wires.”

The frontal lobe is “home to areas that manage thinking, emotions, personality, judgment, self-control, muscle control and movements, memory storage and more,” according to Cleveland Clinic.

The news comes days after Moreno, Samuel’s mother and Carranza’s daughter-in-law, opened fire last weekend between services at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch.

Just before 2 p.m. on Feb. 11, Moreno — armed with a long rifle and wearing a trench coat — entered the church with Samuel before opening fire, according to Houston police.

Two people were shot, Samuel, who was critically injured, and a 57-year-old man, who was shot in the leg and was in stable condition as of Sunday, according to Houston Police Chief Troy Finner.

After a shootout with two off-duty law enforcement officers who were working security at Lakewood, Moreno was also shot, police said. She died from her injuries.

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Finner said that "once she went down, officers reported back to us that she threatened that she had a bomb, so we searched her vehicle, our bomb squad, and also the backpack."

"No explosives were found, but she was also spraying some type of substance on the ground," he added.

Moreno acted alone, according to Finner, who also noted that the motive for the shooting is unknown.

“I don’t want to talk about her motivations because I don’t know,” the police chief said. “We may never know the full story.”

Finner also said he could not confirm whether it was Moreno or the officers who shot Samuel.

"I don't want to speculate on that, but what I would say is if it was, unfortunately, and that female, that suspect put that baby in danger, I'm going to put that blame on her," he said during a press conference.

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