They are among the 248 victims killed in US mass shootings in just the first four months of this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Daniel Enrique Laso-Guzman turned 9 in January, Garcia said authorities previously said he was 8. The other victims have been identified as Diana Velázquez Alvarado, 21 Julisa Molina Rivera, 31, and José Jonathan Cásarez, 18. But his small force covers a large county, he said, and the home is about 15 minutes outside town. 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.īefore the deadly confrontation at Garcia’s home, five 911 calls had been made to report the gunman shooting his rifle outdoors, the father said.Īuthorities got to the scene as fast as they could, Capers said. Authorities are offering $80,000 for information (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images) Go Nakamura/Getty ImagesĢ00 officers are in a manhunt for the Texas suspect accused of killing his 5 neighbors. The alleged gunman, who is not yet in custody, used an AR-15-style rifle to shoot his neighbors which also left at least three others injured. The gunman later came to Garcia’s home, 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.ĬLEVELAND, TX - APRIL 29: In this aerial view, an exterior of a crime scene (C) where five people, including an 8-year-old child, were killed after a shooting inside a home on Apin Cleveland, Texas. 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.’” “I told my wife to get inside because he cocked his gun and he might come threaten us. “We saw him, he was leaving his property and cocked his gun,” the father said. “We walked inside and my wife was talking to the police, and we called five times because he was being more threatening,” Garcia recalled. The suspect refused, and Garcia said he would call police. They’d asked Oropesa to shoot on the other side of his property, he said. He then opened fire on them, a Texas sheriff saysĪbout 10 to 20 minutes before Friday’s massacre, Wilson Garcia and two other men had walked over to Oropesa’s yard to ask him to stop shooting so close to their home because their baby was sleeping, Garcia told CNN. Neighbors asked a man to stop firing a rifle outside. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images) Go Nakamura/Getty Images
The alleged gunman, who is not yet in custody, used an AR-15-style rifle to shoot his neighbors.
The massacre is among more than 180 US mass shootings in just the first four months of the year and, like others, seemingly stemmed from an ordinary encounter.įive people, including an 8-year old, were killed and three were injured in a Saturday night shooting in Cleveland, Texas. Oropesa is considered armed and dangerous, an FBI official said, as more than 250 law enforcement officers and $80,000 in reward money have been devoted to capturing him. Oropesa’s current immigration status is unclear, and it is not known how long he had been in the US since he was last deported.Īuthorities are now pleading for the public’s help in their search for Oropesa, 38, who they say opened fire after he was asked to stop shooting his rifle near a neighboring family’s home in Cleveland, a city of about 8,000 people northeast of Houston. “At an unknown time and location, Perez-Torres unlawfully reentered the United States, and was apprehended and removed several more times by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in September 2009, January 2012, and July 2016,” the source said. Francisco Oropesa, 38, is armed, dangerous and could be anywhere, an FBI special agent said.
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