Texas gunman who killed five is finally ARRESTED following four-day manhunt after he opened fire on family when he was asked to stop shooting in his yard
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The man accused of opening fire on a family in Texas, killing five people, has been arrested following a four-day manhunt.
Francisco Oropesa, 38, is accused of opening fire on his neighbors after they asked him to stop shooting in his yard because they were trying to get a baby to sleep.
The shooting happened on April 28, and sparked a national manhunt. On Tuesday, sources told NBC DFW that Oropesa was apprehended in the city of Cut and Shoot, Texas.
Oropesa has since been taken to the Montgomery County Jail and is charged with first-degree murder.
Francisco Oropeza, 38, is accused of opening fire on his neighbors in Cleveland, a city north of Houston. He has now been arrested
Authorities have said they responded to a home in Cleveland, a city just north of Houston at around 11.30pm and found two adult women dead at the front of the house, and a man lying dead in the living room.
The two women were covered in blood, according to San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers, and were lying on top of two young children who survived.
‘In my opinion, they were actually trying to take care of the babies and keep them babies alive,’ he said.
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The victims have since been identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Daniel Enrique Laso Guzman, 8; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; and Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18.
They were all Honduran nationals shot ‘from the neck up,’ in their home, Capers said.
Capers added that there were 10 people in the house, including three children who were not hurt.
The home in Cleveland, Texas, where the shooting unfolded at 11.30pm on April 28. Three adults were found dead inside and a child was taken to the hospital
The suspect’s home next door. He had been shooting in his yard when at 11.30pm and his neighbors asked him to stop so they could get their baby to sleep
Police said they had been called to the home before for reports about the firing of guns. It is not illegal to fire guns in your own yard, but it remains unclear why officers did not ask for a permit – which, as a person in the country illegally, he could not have.
Oropesa, a Mexican national, had been deported multiple times, sources told Fox News.
His last encounter with immigration authorities was in 2016.
He has a large tattoo on the inside of his forearm of what appears to be a female Aztec, wearing a headdress.
