Transgender Lakewood Church shooter was an illegal alien, but that's just the beginning
/Details of her illegal status, her lengthy criminal record, and a deportation order here, but the real story, as I see it, is that this poor person was stark, raving mad, and conducted a four-year-long terror campaign against her neighbors while nothing was done.
Neighbors of Lakewood Church shooter detail years of 'hell,' police inaction: 'Only a matter of time'
Five women who lived near Genesse Ivonne Moreno in Conroe, Texas, a city more than 50 miles north of the Houston megachurch, described to FOX 26 Houston how Moreno tormented the usually close-knit neighborhood over the past four years.
A next-door neighbor, Jill, said Moreno repeatedly made false police reports that she and others were stalking Moreno and the 7-year-old boy said to be Moreno's son.
Five women who lived near Genesse Ivonne Moreno in Conroe, Texas, a city more than 50 miles north of the Houston megachurch, described to FOX 26 Houston how Moreno tormented the usually close-knit neighborhood over the past four years.
A next-door neighbor, Jill, said Moreno repeatedly made false police reports that she and others were stalking Moreno and the 7-year-old boy said to be Moreno's son.
Moreno – who was originally from El Salvador, had a lengthy criminal record and previously used the name Jeffrey Escalante Moreno – brought the 7-year-old into the megachurch before opening fire, and the boy remains hospitalized in critical condition.
"Four years I’ve been through hell. I have reported this, reported this, reported this, and it’s gone on deaf ears," Jill told the outlet. "I’ve had psychological officers up here. Since they won’t answer their door, they won’t do anything: ‘Until she hurts you, there’s nothing we can do.’ So, everybody keeps saying on all these big news stations, ‘If you see something, say something.’ That’s bulls---. Because I’ve been through it. I’ve talked to everybody. I’ve probably called every one of your news stations trying to get someone to take this on."
"No one would do anything. Nobody would call me back. And yet everyone’s still on these stations saying, ‘See something, say something.’ Nobody should have died. Nobody should have been hurt. This should have been handled years ago. And here we are again," Jill added.
"I knew it was only a matter of time before she did something," said another neighbor, Linda Giutta. "We did something, we said something."
[Further recounting detailing the persons bizzarre, threatening behavior, including brandishing firearms]
…. The neighborhood situation grew so bad, Giutta said, that she and a group of women once took a day off work and went to the courthouse.
"There’s five of us, five families that are going through this. We decided we have to do something about it," she said. "We talked to commissioners, we talked to elected officials, we waited. Some of the ladies talked to police. We waited for a police officer to call his headquarters, and he got somebody over from his headquarters that was talking about mental health. He stayed with us for a while. From there, he suggested we go to legal. From there, we went to the legal department. We got some information from them. We went into their conference room."
They also went to the property association and spoke with the manager and his attorney and sent letters, yet no significant action was taken, the women said.