Joel Osteen church shooter showed 'no attachment' to son who is clinging to life after being shot during attempted massacre: court records

Neighbors and family members are revealing how Genesse Ivonne Moreno, who was shot by two off-duty cops after opening fire in Joel Osteen’s Houston church on Sunday, threatened them and called the 7-year-old son, who is in critical condition, "the boy."

According to Fox 26, divorce records from Montgomery County stated that Moreno’s ex-husband is a registered sex offender, and that the 7-year-old is special needs.

The divorce records also said that Moreno "demonstrates no attachment to the child" and calls him "the boy" instead of using his name. Moreno was also said to not "make eye contact with him."

Child Protective Services investigated the family several times. Moreno "has a history of erratic paranoid, stalking behavior and was diagnosed as exhibiting Munchausen by proxy," the documents stated, noting that Moreno stored a loaded gun in the diaper bag of the then 3-year-old.

Moreno and the son lived in a $247,000 four-bedroom house in Conroe, according to the Daily Mail, where neighbors said they were regularly menaced by Moreno.

"She tried to run us over," one neighbor said. Neighbors said that police have been called several times since Moreno moved in four years ago.

"Her way of intimidation was to bring the gun cases in and out, crossbows. She'd come out, have her gun cases, do heil Hitler, flip you off, call you the b-word, or something. It was something every day," another neighbor said.  

Moreno’s ex-husband Enrique Carranza claimed that Moreno was diagnosed with schizophrenia during their divorce in 2022, and that Moreno became "abusive" soon after they married. The two met in 2015 when the two worked at the Spaghetti Warehouse in Houston.

Walli Carranza, the child’s paternal grandmother and a licensed rabbi, filed several affidavits as an intervener in the two’s divorce. In an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to regain custody, she wrote that Moreno had an extensive mental health history and noted the involvement of state child welfare agencies.

The grandmother told KHOU 11, "She had a particular kind of schizophrenia that caused her to become violent."

"She threatened her husband, my own son, and we still couldn't get intervention."

Carranza said "We asked for help from CPS. ... We asked for help from police and received it many times but she was still allowed to own guns."

Moreno has a lengthy criminal record spanning back to 2005, including assault, weapons, marijuana, and forgery charges. Moreno was also held in an emergency detention order in 2016 for mental illness.

Moreno also went by Jeffrey Escalante Moreno, among other aliases, and was from El Salvador. The child remains in critical condition in a local hospital, and is not expected to survive.