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Authorities are offering $80K for information about the suspected Texas shooter

Law enforcement officers search for Francisco Oropesa, who is suspected of shooting and killing five people in a Cleveland, Texas, home early Saturday. (Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

Update 2:37 pm ET: The Montgomery County Sheriff's office announced that the suspect was possibly in a landfill, nearly 10 miles from where the shooting took place. An employee with the landfill spotted a Hispanic male walking near the wood line and wanted to report the sighting as maybe being Oropesa. It was determined that the person was not the suspect.

Authorities in southeast Texas are offering a $80,000 reward for any tips that lead to the capture of 38-year-old Francisco Oropesa, who police say shot five people to death in a home early Saturday morning and then fled the scene.

During a press briefing on Sunday afternoon, law enforcement officials said they had no leads on Oropesa's whereabouts but that more than 250 officers were working to track him down.

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