Neighbors Speak About Lakewood Shooter

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Moreno – who was originally from El Salvador, had a lengthy criminal record and previously used the name Jeffrey Escalante Moreno – brought the 7-year-old into the megachurch before opening fire, and the boy remains hospitalized in critical condition. "Four years I’ve been through hell. I have reported this, reported this, reported this, and it’s gone on deaf ears," Jill told the outlet. "I’ve had psychological officers up here. Since they won’t answer their door, they won’t do anything: ‘Until she hurts you, there’s nothing we can do.’ So, everybody keeps saying on all these big news stations, ‘If you see something, say something.’ That’s bulls---. Because I’ve been through it. I’ve talked to everybody. I’ve probably called every one of your news stations trying to get someone to take this on." "No one would do anything. Nobody would call me back. And yet everyone’s still on these stations saying, ‘See something, say something.’ Nobody should have died. Nobody should have been hurt. This should have been handled years ago. And here we are again," Jill added.

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They said they frequently spotted Moreno wearing a trench coat while carrying gun cases and a long rifle in and out of the house. Jill recalled that the day of the shooting she saw Moreno pull a sedan into the driveway and cover the vehicle with a blue tarp so that cameras could not pick up what Moreno placed inside. "It looked really odd, and I thought it was weird, but I thought she’s weird anyway, so you never know what this girl is up to, so I just watched my back and just left it at that," Jill said.

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Her way of intimidation was to bring the gun cases in and out, crossbows, you know she’d come out and she’d have her gun cases out there, and she’d do a ‘Hail Hitler’ sign or flip you off or b----. You know, it was something every day," Jill said. "There’s just so many things, and it just seemed to keep escalating. And then when she started targeting other women in the neighborhood, that’s when we all really started getting concerned because we didn’t know how far it was going to go. I wasn’t the only one being targeted."

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In the wake of the shooting, the child's grandmother released a statement that said in part, "Although my former daughter-in-law raged against Israel and Jews in a pro-Palestinian rant yesterday this has nothing to do with Judaism or Islam. Nothing! But this is what happens when reckless and irresponsible reporting lets people with severe mental illness have an excuse for violence," she said. The statement also charged that "[t]he fault lies in 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."

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From the view of her bedroom window, Jill said she could see swastikas and gang signs Moreno had put on display. Moreno also put baby monitors on their shared fence, Jill said. The next-door neighbor said Moreno also made her Wi-Fi address "Kill Jill," honked her horn for hours on end when she was outside trying to garden and blasted rap music with threatening lyrics. "One of the songs had the lyrics ‘somebody’s going to get f---ed up tonight,’ Jill said. "She’d back it up and replay it for hours on end."

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This was a weekly occurrence. She was after me," Jill said. "At first it was always like, ‘Oh, it’s because I’m transgender.’ Then it was ‘because we’re Mexican.’ Then it was because ‘we’re Black.’ And then every time, depending on what her narrative was for that day, she’d change the reason you were picking on her. You know?" (Investigators at a Monday news conference identified Moreno as a woman and the biological mother of the 7-year-old child.) Jill said Moreno filed a false report with the post office that mail was not being delivered because Moreno was transgender. However, in fact, according to Jill, Moreno had a vehicle parked blocking the mailbox. The mail carrier, the same man who had been delivering Jill's mail for about five to six years, has a transgender son and came to Moreno's door to clear the air after that report. However, according to Jill, Moreno went off on him. The mail carrier afterward "came to my house and said, ‘Jill, this woman next door is after you.’ He quit the next day," the woman said.

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My daughter even called Conroe PD and raised Cain with them and said, ‘Aren’t you guys going to do anything? Are you going to wait until I get the phone call that my mom is dead?'" Jill told FOX 26. "It's gotten very scary." Two Thanksgivings ago, Jill said, her grandchildren were visiting from Minnesota and did not want to play in the backyard because Moreno had an aggressive dog that rocked even their heavily plated fence, so they opted to do crafts on the driveway. That's when Jill said Moreno took out a rifle to intimidate the children. "She wanted to scare my grandkids, so she went out and got the long rifle – OK, they’re from Minnesota, they shoot, they know what’s going on. Well, she went to the backyard, opened a blind that had never been opened before in four years, and was putting the rifle out of it, like she was going to gun down on somebody," Jill said. The neighborhood situation grew so bad, Giutta said, that she and a group of women once took a day off work and went to the courthouse.

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