5 killed, including 8-year-old in San Jacinto County, shooter at large
Texas mass shooting suspect Francisco Oropesa was captured on Tuesday following a dramatic four-day manhunt, after the FBI received a tip-off about his whereabouts.
The 38-year-old accused gunman was found hiding under a pile of laundry in the closet of a home in Cut and Shoot, a city close to the town of Cleveland where he allegedly carried out Friday’s horror attack.
Greg Capers, sheriff of San Jacinto County, said during a Tuesday press conference the “coward” was taken into custody without incident.
“He was caught hiding in a closet underneath some laundry,” the sheriff said. “They effectively made the arrest. He is uninjured.” A woman was also detained at the scene.
Mr Oropesa has been arrested on murder charges over Friday’s shooting which unfolded when his neighbours asked him to stop shooting near their home because a baby was trying to sleep.
He allegedly stormed into his neighbours’ home with an AR-15-style rifle and opened fire on people inside.
Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, her nine-year-old son Daniel Enrique Laso-Guzman, Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21, Julisa Molina Rivera, 31, and José Jonathan Cásarez, 18, were all killed in the shooting.
