Five people, including an 8-year-old boy, were shot 'execution style' Friday night allegedly by a neighbor with an AR-15 at a crowded home in San Jacinto County.
The suspect, described as a Mexican National who had been twice deported, remains on the run, according to Rob Freyer, an assistant district attorney with the San Jacinto County's DA Office. A judge issued an arrest warrant with a $5 million bond for the suspect, identified by officials as 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza. The Chronicle does not typically name suspects until they are formally charged.
One female died at the front door and two other females died in a bedroom, lying across three small children who they were apparently trying to protect, authorities said.Law enforcement authorities removing bodies from a scene where five people were shot the night before Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Cleveland.Three children covered in blood were taken to a hospital, where exams determined they were uninjured and bloodied by the slain women protecting them, officials said.
San Jacinto deputies called Montgomery County law enforcement officials and SWAT to determine if the suspect was armed inside his home. They obtained a search warrant and discovered the gunman had fled. Law enforcement authorities investigating a scene where five people were shot and killed the night before Saturday, April 29, 2023, in Unincorporated San Jacinto County. The suspect Francisco Oropeza, who lives next door, is still at large.Gunfire is frequent in this part of unincorporated San Jacinto County, about 60 miles north of Houston, neighbor Veronica Pineda, 38, said.“I heard like five shots and then another moment and then more shooting,” she said.
Pineda said the incident reaffirmed her preference to keep to herself. Something as simple as asking someone to keep the noise down, or stop shooting, can erupt into violence.Others along Walter Drive agreed. Rene Arevalo, 45, said practically everyone shoots in the area, but also knows not to intrude.
“It makes you think who your neighbor is,” Arevalo said, his 21-year-old son Rene Jr. at his side. “Texas is a place where you don’t know who could have a gun.”
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