Two people including a five year old boy were critically injured on Sunday afternoon after a woman opened fire at a Christian megachurch in Houston led by Joel Osteen.
At just before 2 p.m., the woman, holding a rifle, wearing a trench coat and carrying a backpack, entered Lakewood Church.
She came with a boy of about 5 years old, Chief Troy Finner of the Houston Police Department said at a news conference on Sunday.
“Unfortunately the 5-year-old kid was hit and is in critical condition at our local hospital,” he added.
The woman was shot and killed on the spot by two off duty officers.
She had also threatened she “had a bomb,” but authorities searched her vehicle and a backpack she was wearing and found no explosives, Finner said.
