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The Guardian - US
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Edwin Rios

Texas shooting suspect still at large as father says family called 911 five times

Wilson Garcia, center, at a vigil in Cleveland, Texas on Sunday. ‘I am trying to be strong for my children,’ he said through tears.
Wilson García, center, at a vigil in Cleveland, Texas, on Sunday. ‘I am trying to be strong for my children,’ he said through tears. Photograph: David J Phillip/AP

As his month-old baby cried through the night, Wilson García just wanted his neighbor to shoot his rifle farther away.

Joined by two others, García “respectfully” asked Francisco Oropeza, 38, to change where he was firing off rounds on Friday night as more than a dozen people – some on a church retreat – gathered at the family home in Cleveland, Texas, a rural town north of Houston.

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