A Texas governor is facing fierce backlash after referring to the victims of a shooting as "illegal immigrants" in a statement announcing new reward money in the manhunt for the shooter.
As the search for the gunman who fatally shot five neighbours with an AR-style rifle in Cleveland enters its third day on Monday, May 1, authorities in neighbouring Montgomery County warned residents to stay inside "out of an abundance of caution" near an area which had a heavy police presence following a potential sighting of the suspect.
Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said they had no confirmation the person spotted was in fact 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, who has been at large since the shooting just before midnight on Friday, April 28, in the rural town of Cleveland, Texas.
