Mass shooting in Texas by Mexican National

[jmdrake]

What the bloody hell?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-shooting-leaves-dead-including-8-year-old-manhunt-underway

San Jacinto County, Texas sheriff names suspect in shooting as Mexican national Francisco Oropeza, as manhunt closes in
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Texas shooting leaves 5 dead, including 8-year-old; manhunt underway
San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers described the shooting near Cleveland, Texas, where a suspect described as a Mexican male shot and killed five people, including an eight-year-old boy. (KTRK)

A Mexican national is suspected of killing five neighbors in southeast Texas after one of them asked him to stop shooting his rifle late Friday, saying that a baby was trying to sleep.


The suspect in the execution-style killings is Francisco Oropeza, 39, a Mexican national, according to San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers. No photo of Oropeza is currently available.

Capers said during a Saturday afternoon press conference that Oropeza "could be anywhere now." Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Houston Field Office said that Oropeza should be considered "armed and dangerous" and is a "threat to the community."

The Texas Department of Corrections has sent a team with dogs, officers on horseback and a drone in the air to assist with Oropeza's arrest, police said.

Francisco Oropeza, 39, a Mexican national, is suspected of killing five people near Cleveland, Texas, Friday, April 28, 2023. (Fox News)

Law enforcement authorities removing bodies from a scene where five people were shot the night before Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Cleveland, TX. Authorities say an 8-year-old child was among five people killed in a shooting at the home in southeast Texas late Friday night. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Officials said the following individuals were killed in the shooting: Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Daniel Enrique Laso, 8; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; and Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18.

In a tweet, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it is assisting in the search for Oropeza.

Capers told Fox News Digital he is "praying" that the suspect will be in custody in the next two to four hours.

He said this was the first mass shooting incident with more than three victims his office has ever dealt with.

"Nobody should ever have to witness this," Capers said. "Nobody should ever have to live through this."

Just before midnight, deputies with the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to respond to a call for "harassment" at the 100 block of Walters Road in the Trails End area of Cleveland, about 50 miles north of Houston.

En route to the scene, the sheriff's office received multiple 911 calls about an active shooter at the location. Upon arriving, officers discovered five people had been shot at the residence, police said.

According to the sheriff, the suspect was a neighbor who had been firing an AR-15-style .223 caliber rifle in his yard before midnight. Police found shell casings in the yard.

"One of the victims came out of the house and said, hey, we have a small baby that's trying to sleep," Casper told KTRK. "And the man said, I'll shoot out in my front yard, I do what I want to in my own residence."


The house of the suspect who is responsible of killing five people is photographed Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Cleveland, TX. Authorities say an 8-year-old child was among five people killed in a shooting at the home in southeast Texas late Friday night. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Witnesses told investigators the gunman was drinking alcohol.

What happened next is shocking. Police say the man walked up to the front door of his neighbor's house and began firing. One victim was found by the doorway leading into the living room. Another victim was found dead in the living room. Two more women were found shot dead upstairs, their bodies shielding young children who survived and were taken to a hospital.

Caspers said each victim had been shot in the head.


When police arrived, four people were pronounced dead at the scene and an eight-year-old boy was airlifted in critical condition to a local trauma center, where he died, Capers said.

A SWAT unit from neighboring Montgomery County arrived to assist and cleared several properties near to the crime scene. The shooter was determined to have fled the county.

Three other victims were taken to the hospital "covered in blood," according to the sheriff's office. It was not clear if they were injured or if the blood belonged to the other victims.

Capers said that the victims were from Honduras. He said a total of 10 people were living in the house. Of those killed, four were adults, one male and three females, while the youngest was just eight years old. The three other victims who were taken to the hospital were children.

Two other people inside the residence were evaluated at the scene and released, police said.

"When we got here, the two females in the bedroom were actually laying over the top of the younger children, two of the three younger children" that survived, Capers said.

The sheriff's office is withholding the identities of the victims pending notification of next of kin, but says it has a copy of Oropeza's consular identification card.

Caspers said authorities confiscated a shotgun, two rifles, including the .223 caliber rifle, and a pistol from the victims' residence.

A judge issued a warrant for the suspect's arrest and assigned a $5 million bond.​

 

[cjm]

What the bloody hell?

You're slipping, [MENTION=849]jmdrake[/MENTION];

Proper highlighting....

https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-shooting-leaves-dead-including-8-year-old-manhunt-underway

San Jacinto County, Texas sheriff names suspect in shooting as Mexican national Francisco Oropeza, as manhunt closes in
Chris PandolfoBy Chris Pandolfo , Adam Sabes | Fox News
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Texas shooting leaves 5 dead, including 8-year-old; manhunt underway
San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers described the shooting near Cleveland, Texas, where a suspect described as a Mexican male shot and killed five people, including an eight-year-old boy. (KTRK)

A Mexican national is suspected of killing five neighbors in southeast Texas after one of them asked him to stop shooting his rifle late Friday, saying that a baby was trying to sleep.

The suspect in the execution-style killings is Francisco Oropeza, 39, a Mexican national, according to San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers. No photo of Oropeza is currently available.

Capers said during a Saturday afternoon press conference that Oropeza "could be anywhere now." Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Houston Field Office said that Oropeza should be considered "armed and dangerous" and is a "threat to the community."

The Texas Department of Corrections has sent a team with dogs, officers on horseback and a drone in the air to assist with Oropeza's arrest, police said.

Francisco Oropeza, 39, a Mexican national, is suspected of killing five people near Cleveland, Texas, Friday, April 28, 2023. (Fox News)

Law enforcement authorities removing bodies from a scene where five people were shot the night before Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Cleveland, TX. Authorities say an 8-year-old child was among five people killed in a shooting at the home in southeast Texas late Friday night. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Officials said the following individuals were killed in the shooting: Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Daniel Enrique Laso, 8; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; and Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18.

In a tweet, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it is assisting in the search for Oropeza.

Capers told Fox News Digital he is "praying" that the suspect will be in custody in the next two to four hours.

He said this was the first mass shooting incident with more than three victims his office has ever dealt with.

"Nobody should ever have to witness this," Capers said. "Nobody should ever have to live through this."

Just before midnight, deputies with the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to respond to a call for "harassment" at the 100 block of Walters Road in the Trails End area of Cleveland, about 50 miles north of Houston.

En route to the scene, the sheriff's office received multiple 911 calls about an active shooter at the location. Upon arriving, officers discovered five people had been shot at the residence, police said.

According to the sheriff, the suspect was a neighbor who had been firing an AR-15-style .223 caliber rifle in his yard before midnight. Police found shell casings in the yard.

"One of the victims came out of the house and said, hey, we have a small baby that's trying to sleep," Casper told KTRK. "And the man said, I'll shoot out in my front yard, I do what I want to in my own residence."

The house of the suspect who is responsible of killing five people is photographed Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Cleveland, TX. Authorities say an 8-year-old child was among five people killed in a shooting at the home in southeast Texas late Friday night. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Witnesses told investigators the gunman was drinking alcohol.

What happened next is shocking. Police say the man walked up to the front door of his neighbor's house and began firing. One victim was found by the doorway leading into the living room. Another victim was found dead in the living room. Two more women were found shot dead upstairs, their bodies shielding young children who survived and were taken to a hospital.

Caspers said each victim had been shot in the head.

When police arrived, four people were pronounced dead at the scene and an eight-year-old boy was airlifted in critical condition to a local trauma center, where he died, Capers said.

A SWAT unit from neighboring Montgomery County arrived to assist and cleared several properties near to the crime scene. The shooter was determined to have fled the county.

Three other victims were taken to the hospital "covered in blood," according to the sheriff's office. It was not clear if they were injured or if the blood belonged to the other victims.

Capers said that the victims were from Honduras. He said a total of 10 people were living in the house. Of those killed, four were adults, one male and three females, while the youngest was just eight years old. The three other victims who were taken to the hospital were children.

Two other people inside the residence were evaluated at the scene and released, police said.

"When we got here, the two females in the bedroom were actually laying over the top of the younger children, two of the three younger children" that survived, Capers said.

The sheriff's office is withholding the identities of the victims pending notification of next of kin, but says it has a copy of Oropeza's consular identification card.

Caspers said authorities confiscated a shotgun, two rifles, including the .223 caliber rifle, and a pistol from the victims' residence.

A judge issued a warrant for the suspect's arrest and assigned a $5 million bond.​

 

[fedupinmo]

Wait... don't we call them migrants now?

 

[Anti Federalist]

Wait... don't we call them migrants now?

Homicidal invader...thrice deported.

 

[fedupinmo]

Homicidal invader...thrice deported.

They should all be "illegal aliens", just funny how this one is a "Mexican national" and the rest are friendly migrants.

 

[jmdrake]

You're slipping, [MENTION=849]jmdrake[/MENTION];

Proper highlighting....

Thank you for that correction! Indeed as we know from the #nashvillemassacre, only highlight the identity of the perpetrator when he's a white naturally born male and never highlight white Christian victims or even a black Christian victim if that's going to create an anti Christian narrative. And of course highlight the weapon type...when it's one of those evil "assault rifles." Don't mention the guns we don't want the public to know we're going to ban yet or other weapons such as knives and rental trucks.

 

[jmdrake]

Update: They caught him hiding in a closet.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/us/cleveland-texas-neighbor-shooting-fugitive-tuesday/index.html

Cleveland, Texas
CNN
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A man accused of fatally shooting five people at a neighbor’s home in Texas last week, including a mother and her 9-year-old son, was arrested Tuesday evening after a dayslong manhunt, officials announced.

The suspect, Francisco Oropesa, was found in a house just miles from the home in Cleveland, Texas, where the killings took place, the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office said.

Oropesa – who is a Mexican national – was “caught hiding in a closet underneath some laundry,” Sheriff Greg Capers told reporters during a Tuesday night press conference.

“They effectively made the arrest; he is uninjured; and he is currently being taken to my facility in Coldspring,” Capers added.

Suspect in Texas massacre had been deported 4 times after entering US illegally, ICE source says
Though the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office said Oropesa was captured in the town of Cut and Shoot, the FBI Houston office tweeted that he was found in the neighboring city of Conroe.

The suspect will be held on five counts of murder with bond set at $5 million, the sheriff said.

Oropesa, 38, is accused of carrying out the massacre Friday night after he was asked to stop shooting his rifle near a neighboring home, officials have said. Investigators had initially started tracking Oropesa using his cellphone but said that trail went cold Saturday evening.

A tip submitted through the FBI’s tip line ultimately led authorities to the suspect’s location, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul said. Paul said the tip came in at 5:15 p.m. local time and Oropesa was arrested at 6:30 p.m.

“We just want to thank the person who had the courage and bravery to call in the suspect’s location,” he said.

In addition to acting on the tip, law enforcement officials tracked Oropesa’s wife to a home near Cut and Shoot that was associated with one of his family members, a law enforcement source told CNN. It wasn’t immediately clear if that happened before or after the tip to the FBI.

Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety, US Marshals Service and US Customs and Border Patrol’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit, known as BORTAC, entered the home and brought the suspect into custody, an FBI Houston spokesperson said.

Authorities are now investigating whether the suspect had any help in hiding, San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon told CNN Tuesday night.

Oropesa will appear before a magistrate in San Jacinto County Wednesday, a law enforcement source involved in the investigation told CNN. Authorities have 90 days to indict the suspect, the source said.

The Mexican consulate will be formally notified on Wednesday of Oropesa’s circumstances, according to the source.

Authorities for days urged the public to come forward with any information and devoted substantial resources to tracking down the suspect, including more than 250 law enforcement officers and a $80,000 in rewards for tips leading to his arrest.

Though Oropesa’s current immigration status is unknown, he had entered the US illegally and been deported by immigration officials at least four times since 2009, said an ICE source who identified him as Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres. An immigration judge first removed him in March 2009 before he was deported again in September 2009, January 2012, and July 2016, the source said.

It is not known how long Oropesa has been in the US since his last deportation, according to the source.

The victims – all Honduran nationals – have been identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, and her son Daniel Enrique Laso-Guzman, 9; Diana Velázquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31, and José Jonathan Cásarez, 18.

Fifteen people – including friends and godparents who had come to help get ready for a church event – had gathered Friday in the home in Cleveland, a city of about 8,000 northeast of Houston, said Wilson Garcia, whose wife and son were killed.

About 10 to 20 minutes before the massacre, Garcia and two others had walked over to Oropesa’s yard to ask him to stop shooting so close to their home because Garcia’s baby was sleeping, he told CNN. They’d asked Oropesa to shoot on the other side of his property, the father said.

The suspect refused, and Garcia said he would call police.

“We walked inside and my wife was talking to the police, and we called five times because he was being more threatening,” Garcia recalled.

“We saw him, he was leaving his property and cocked his gun,” the father said. “I told my wife to get inside because he cocked his gun and he might come threaten us. So my wife said, ‘You go inside, I don’t think he will fire at me because I’m a woman, I’ll stay here at the door.’”

Soon after, the gunman charged into Garcia’s home, first shooting his wife, Sonia Argentina Guzman, in the doorway before killing three other adults and Garcia’s son, Daniel Enrique Laso-Guzman, the grieving father said.

“One of the people who died saw when my wife fell to the ground,” Garcia told CNN.

“She told me to throw myself out the window because my children were already without a mother. So one of us had to stay alive to take care of them. She was the person who helped me jump out the window.”

The woman who helped Garcia flee did not survive, he said.

“Two people who died were protecting my 2 1/2-year-old daughter and my 1-month-old son,” Garcia said, sobbing. “They protected him with a bunch of clothing so the murderer wouldn’t kill him, too. So just imagine what we’re feeling now. It was horrible.”

When police arrived, they found the victims had been shot “almost execution style” at close range above the neck, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers told local media.

Authorities got to the scene as fast as they could, Capers said. But his small force covers a large county, he said, and the home is about 15 minutes outside town.

‘I feel a part of me has gone with her’ As the victim’s families mourn, Argentina Guzman’s loved ones struggled to put their grief into words.

The pain felt by her brother, German Guzman, is “unexplainable,” he told CNN, adding, “It’s difficult to know people who are very close to you are gone, very difficult.”

“I feel a part of me has gone with her. I feel a part of my heart is broken,” said her mother, Francia Guzman.

“With God’s permission, she’ll return in a coffin so I can say goodbye even though she’ll never respond, even though she can no longer say anything to me,” the mother said.

Honduran officials are preparing to repatriate the victims’ remains, they’ve said.

“The Government of Honduras deeply regrets the loss of these valuable lives and accompanies all their loved ones in their pain. We demand that the pertinent authorities arrest the perpetrator of this terrible event and apply the full weight of the law,” the Honduran Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“The only thing I want is for them to be returned so they can rest where they were born, so they can rest forever and they be in a place where I can at least take them a flower,” Francia Guzman said.​

 

[TheTexan]

I'm assuming the shooter was a hard working & well respected member of the community. Very sad.

 

[sam1952]

Authorities got to the scene as fast as they could, Capers said. But his small force covers a large county, he said, and the home is about 15 minutes outside town.

Just sayin’

 

[oyarde]

My initial source said he had been deported five times prior.

 

[TheTexan]

My initial source said he had been deported five times prior.

In olden times, a person who would return from exile, would do so on pain of death