A woman wearing a trench coat with a 5-year-old child in tow opened fire with a long rifle inside Joel Osteen's famed mega church on Super Bowl Sunday.
Two people were injured and one suspect was killed during a shooting at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church on Sunday afternoon, Texas authorities say. During a press conference, police chief Troy Finner said that the shooting began at 1:53 p.m. It happened at around the time that the Spanish language church service was scheduled to start. The suspect, who was a woman, entered the church with a long rifle.
'We're going to continue to to move forward. There are forces of evil, but the forces that are for us, the forces of God, are stronger than that,' he continued. 'So we're going to keep going strong and just, you know, doing what God's called us to do, lift people up and give hope to the world again.
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