Off-duty officers kill female shooter at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston

A woman opened fire with a long gun inside celebrity pastor Joel Osteen's megachurch in Texas on Sunday before being shot and killed by off-duty police officers, authorities said.

The armed woman entered the Lakewood Church in Houston alongside a 5-year-old boy, who was critically wounded in the shootout with police. A 57-year-old man, who is not believed to be involved in the incident, was also shot but is in stable condition.

The suspect claimed to have a bomb, but no explosives were found by police, officials said. https://trib.al/GhHzLnw

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