Another revelation has surfaced in the case of Genesse Moreno, the woman who opened fire at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, on Sunday. The attempted mass shooting prompted nationwide discussions on mental health and gun legislation.

Earlier this week, the shooter’s neighbors spoke out, recounting their past confrontations in which she issued threats, pointed guns, and otherwise harassed them in the years leading up to the incident.

Now, the former mother-in-law of the shooter is also discussing her experiences, noting that she alerted the authorities about Moreno’s behavior multiple times.

The former mother-in-law of the woman who opened fire at a Houston megachurch tried for years to alert authorities and others, including church staff, about her ex-daughter-in-law’s mental health struggles, she said Wednesday. But Walli Carranza said nothing came of her actions.

Carranza said she believes systemic failures as well as lax gun laws ultimately led to Sunday’s shooting at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in which Genesse Moreno entered the church with her 7-year-old son and opened fire in a hallway. Two people were wounded in the shooting, including Moreno’s son, who was shot in the head. Moreno was gunned down by security officers she exchanged gunfire with.

“You can’t put responsibility on the mind, when the mind was so very ill. A healthy mother would never bring her child to a situation like this. That’s not mental health. So sometimes we don’t have to find a guilty party or place blame. We can just say there are systems that failed,” Carranza told The Associated Press in an interview.

Carranza said her grandson Samuel remained in critical condition, but that he was doing better.

Carranza reached out to Child Protective Services on multiple occasions over concerns of negligence and danger to her grandson, Samuel, who remains in critical condition. She told them that Moreno left guns unattended in the household, and Carranza feared that Samuel would accidentally harm himself. Unfortunately, the authorities did not take any substantive actions.

Carranza said Child Protective Services was notified after Moreno was accused by nurses of putting adult medication in her son’s feeding tube after his birth in 2016. Other concerns, including allegations that Moreno left guns unattended in her home, were also forwarded to CPS but no action was taken, Carranza said.

“My great concern for Sam was that he was going to shoot himself, and that’s what we warned against,” Carranza said. She added that in January 2020, when Moreno and her grandson visited her in Colorado, Samuel pulled a handgun from his diaper bag and gave it to her.

Carranza claims she sent emails to Lakewood Church since Moreno sporadically attended services there. Don Iloff, a spokesperson for the church, told reporters that he was attempting to locate those emails.

Iloff said in situations where someone may reach out for help, what the church can offer them is spiritual and biblical counseling.

“If we had reached out and (Moreno) had accepted counseling, then we definitely would have been more than happy to provide that,” Iloff said.

This development further underscores the tragic nature of this incident. It is yet another situation in which there were clear warning signs that a troubled individual could end up resorting to violence. In this case, various authorities were alerted to the danger posed by Moreno’s behavior, but nothing was done.