HOUSTON (AP) — Police in Texas stated Sunday that they have been responding to a attainable capturing on the Houston megachurch run by celeb pastor Joel Osteen.
In a tweet on X, previously often known as Twitter, Lakewood Church stated there was “an energetic scenario involving photographs fired” on the church.
“That’s all the data we now have right now. Please pray for Lakewood and our neighborhood,” the church stated within the submit.
Jodi Silva, a Houston police spokeswoman, stated officers have been responding to the church however she didn’t have any further info.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez stated in a tweet on X that it was “believed {that a} attainable shooter is down, shot by considered one of our deputy’s on-scene.”
Christina Rodriguez, who was contained in the church, informed KTRK that she “began screaming, ‘There’s a shooter, there is a shooter,’” after which she and others ran to the bottom of a library contained in the constructing, then stood in a stairway earlier than they have been informed it was protected to go away.
Folks stood outdoors the constructing as authorities evacuated the church. Officers later introduced a reunification heart had been arrange at a close-by highschool for folks to search out their family members.
Witnesses informed reporters that they heard a number of photographs fired across the time the church’s 2 p.m. Spanish language service was set to start.
About 45,000 folks attend weekly companies at Lakewood, making it the third largest megachurch within the U.S., in response to the Hartford Institute for Faith Analysis. Osteen’s televised sermons attain about 100 nations.
