A Texas man accused of killing five neighbors after being asked to stop shooting his assault-style rifle because of the noise had been deported from the U.S. four times since 2009, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said on Monday.
The suspect in the shooting in the rural community of Cleveland, Texas, Francisco Oropesa, 38, is a Mexican who was deported in March 2009 after being ordered removed by an immigration judge, ICE said in a statement. He was apprehended and deported again in September 2009, January 2012 and July 2016, ICE said.
Law enforcement had not updated the media on the progress of their search by late afternoon Monday, but the trail had apparently gone cold on Sunday. Officers were going door-to-door in a search that involved more than 250 law enforcement officers from a dozen agencies, said San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers. Officials are offering an $80,000 reward for information that will lead to the suspect's apprehension.Capers said on Saturday that the suspect stepped out of his house on Friday night and started shooting off rounds with an AR-15-style rifle in his yard.
A survivor of the shooting, Wilson Garcia, who is the father of the 1-month-old baby, told ABC News affiliate KTRT Houston that he escaped out of a window after several shots almost hit him.Instead of stopping, the suspect barged into the home with his rifle and starting shooting.
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