Bodycam Footage From Lakewood Shooting Catches Officer Praying for Wounded Little Boy
“Father God, please bring him close to you. You're good…it's OK."
An officer who responded to the shooting at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas last month can be heard in newly-released bodycam footage praying for the little boy who was critically injured in the incident.
“Father God ... Father God, just be with us,” a female officer identified as Garcia prays amid the confusion as caught on camera.
The footage was released along with other chilling videos captured in the attack and posted to the Houston Police Department’s YouTube page recently.
In the February 11 attack, shooter Genesse Moreno dragged her 7-year-old son, Samuel, into Lakewood Church wielding a rifle. Samuel was shot in the fire Moreno exchanged with security at the church, and Moreno was ultimately shot and killed by law enforcement officers after falsely threatening to detonate a bomb.
"We need to go. We need to get closer. Father God. God," Garcia can be heard praying as she responds to the scene, prior to Moreno’s death.
"Come on. Come on. We need to approach. Father God, just be with us. Forgive us our sins," her petition continues. As she approaches the wounded child, she continues her prayers.
“Father God, please bring him close to you," she says. "You're good, you're good, you're good, it's OK."
Note that little Samuel is still fighting for his life in the hospital, where he is being supported by his previously estranged paternal grandmother.
"Sam is now entering the very long road towards life. For the first 10 days Sam had to just survive. Now he must choose every single day to live more fully. He can now be sat up on my lap with his body braced between mine and the Physical Therapist.....and with the PT holding his head steady. In that position I read him a story and sing to him,” his grandmother recently shared on Facebook, as The Christian Post reported.