Lakewood “Woman” Shooter a “Transgender” Salvadoran Immigrant

The “woman” who opened fire at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch in Houston, Texas, on Sunday was a man.

He was also a Salvadoran immigrant, legal status unknown.

Those facts won’t likely figure in news reports.

Escalante Moreno

First to identify the dead shooter, killed by two off-duty lawmen, was KHOU in Houston.

Based on a search warrant, the station disclosed that the shooter was Genesse Ivonne Moreno, a man whose name is Jeffrey Escalante.

Wearing a trench coat, Escalante walked into the church with a five-year-old boy in tow and opened fire with an AR-15, emblazoned with “Free Palestine.”

Escalante wounded a 57-year-old man and the child was hit and critically wounded in the exchange of gunfire with a 28-year-old city cop and a 38-year-old officer with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.

KHOU, however, searched paywalled records at the Texas Department of Public Safety and learned that Escalante was not, as media reports said, a woman.

Reported KHOU:

Moreno had a criminal history dating back to 2005, and previously identified as Jeffery Escalante, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety records search. Prior arrests include assault of a public servant, assault causing bodily injury, forgery, possession of marijuana, theft, evading arrest, unlawful carrying weapon, and failure to stop and give information. 

The Blaze’s Sara Gonzalez reproduced the shooter’s criminal record that shows he was born in El Salvador. Whether he was a U.S. citizen is unclear.

Gonzalez also posted a photo of Escalante’s mug shots that show him looking feminine.

Law enforcement, including the FBI, searched the deranged shooter’s home on Sunday and were looking for explosives, KHOU reported.

The officer named in the warrant wrote that he believed the home contained “ammunition, firearms, explosives, materials used to make explosives.”

The shooter “stated that she was in possession of a bomb,” the warrant says:

Affiant observed that she was in possession of a yellow in color rope and substances consistent with the manufacture of explosive devices, which appeared to be a detonation cord, and is at this time unable to determine whether MORENO’S threat … is currently credible.

Supported Socialist Sanders

The shooter was also a hard leftist who supported Bernie Sanders and offered advice on cleaning an AR-15, social media posts reproduced at Gateway Pundit showed. He also contributed to Lakewood Church.

“He wants to finish FDR’s new deal and I WANT HIM IN THE OFFICE as the US PRESIDENT,” he wrote of the failed presidential candidate.

“How does one clean an AR-15? he asked. “Easy follow these steps.”

Reproducing the note from Lakewood confirming his contribution, Escalante wrote that “I will honor and bless my church.”

At this writing, many mainstream media reports are calling Escalante a “woman” or “female” and not disclosing that he is a “transgender” or an immigrant.

Escalante is at least the third “gender confused” shooter either to embark on a rampage or land in jail for a sex or other crimes.

In 2024, a “non-binary” person called Anderson Aldrich, who goes by “Mx.” and they/them pronouns was charged with federal hate crimes for the mass shooting at a “gay” watering hole in Colorado Spring, Colorado. He pleaded guilty to five murders and 46 counts of attempted murder in June last year.

In 2020, murderess and attempted mass murderess Maya McKinney, who pretends she is a boy called “Alec,” was sentenced to life in prison plus 38 years for the mass shooting at a STEM school in Denver Colorado. She and another anti-Christian shooter killed one boy and wounded eight other students.

Jonathan Richardson, who masquerades as a woman called Autumn Cordellioné, strangled a baby in 2001 and received a 55-year prison sentence. The American Civil Liberties Union wants taxpayers to pay for his “transition” surgery.

Last year, federal prosecutors charged “transgender woman” “Stacie-Marie” Laughton, a New Hampshire state legislator, with sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child porn.

More famously, the Biden administration cashiered Energy Department official Sam Brinton, the bald, “non-binary” sadist involved in something called “pup play” after he was arrested for stealing luggage from airport carousels.