A manhunt is still underway in Texas for a Mexican national who reportedly shot five people, including a nine-year-old boy, to death in their home.
Multiple news outlets have detailed the harrowing moment when police say 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza turned a rifle on his next-door neighbors, identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21, Julisa Molina Rivera, 31, and Josué Jonatán Cáceres, 18, al of whom are reportedly Honduran nationals. Authorities say Oropeza gunned down the family members execution-style in their Cleveland, Texas home after they asked him to stop firing his gun in his front yard because a baby in their house was trying to sleep. Guzman’s nine-year-old son, Daniel Enrique Laso, was also shot and transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
According to local reports, when police arrived, officers found two female victims lying on top of three children they’d clearly been trying to protect when they were killed. None of those children were injured.
Manhunt investigation continues for a Mexican national Francisco Oropeza who is accused of killing 5 people who lived next door after they asked him to stop firing rounds in his front yard so their baby could sleep. The killings were execution style according to authorities… pic.twitter.com/XeE99ij79p
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What most reports have failed to mention, however, is that Oropeza is reportedly in the country illegally, marking yet another example of a crime by an undocumented “migrant” who never should have been here in the first place, much less been able to get a gun unlawfully and senselessly murder an entire family. According to Fox News citing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement source, Oropeza, who also has a U.S. arrest record from a DWI back in 2009, had already been deported five times and “has ‘multiple’ illegal re-entries on his record.”
More than 250 law enforcement officers from local, state, and federal agencies are now hunting for Oropeza, who has been at large since the shooting Friday night. But as time passes, the hope that he will be found begins to dwindle.
“The longer this goes on, this will get harder,” James Smith, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Houston field office, said at a news conference Sunday.
“We do not know where he is,” Smith added. “We’re running into dead ends. We have zero leads to him.”
A reward for information leading to Oropeza’s arrest now stands at $80,000.
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