Father dead, daughter hurt in Stone Oak home shooting
A San Antonio father is dead and his daughter is in critical condition after a shooting at their home in the Stone Oak neighborhood.
The shooting happened Tuesday morning in the 900 block of Cheyenne Creek on the North Side.
Police Chief William Mcmanus gave few details but said a husband, wife and daughter lived in the home.
The father, 43, was found dead in the home with a gunshot wound, and the daughter, 23, was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, Mcmanus said.
The mother, 50, was taken to San Antonio police headquarters for questioning.
“We don’t know exactly what went down or how it went down,” Mcmanus said.
Police recovered one weapon inside the home,
Mcmanus said.
The chief said they had been called to home four times in the past few years for mental health issues and family disturbances but would not say to whom the calls were related.
The former mother-inlaw of Lakewood Church attacker Genesse Moreno said the shooting that left the woman dead and Moreno’s son critically wounded should be a “wake-up call” to authorities.
In a Facebook post, Rabbi Walli Carranza also revealed that Moreno, 36, was taking medication for schizophrenia, and had “raged against Israel and Jews in a pro-palestinian rant” Sunday, before the shooting at the church 6 miles from downtown Houston. Carranza said that despite the rant, she believed the shooting “has nothing to do with Judaism or Islam” and was instead of a case of a person with mental illness not getting the care and intervention she needed.
“The fault lies in a Child Protective Services of Montgomery County and Harris County that refused to remove custody from a woman with known mental illness that was not being treated and with the state of Texas for not having strong red flag laws that would have prevented her from owning or possessing a gun,” Carranza said.
Carranza also revealed her grandson had suffered a brain injury and was “clinging to life” at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Police said Moreno brought the child with her to the church Sunday afternoon, when she walked into a hallway and began firing indiscriminately with an Ar-style rifle. Moreno was shot and killed by law enforcement officers — a Houston Police Department officer and an agent for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission — who were working security jobs at the church. The boy and a 57-year-old man were wounded in the exchange. It’s unclear whom they were shot by. Moreno had a documented history of mental health issues and run-ins with the law, police said Monday. She was held for emergency detention by police in 2016 and in 2022 was convicted of unlawful carrying of a weapon, a misdemeanor.
Police said the initial investigation had uncovered some antisemitic writings by Moreno, which they said might be related to the family dispute. Some of her in-laws, including Carranza, are Jewish.