Francisco Oropesa, 38, is accused of carrying out the massacre Friday night after neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle so close to their home, officials have said.
Investigators had initially started tracking Oropesa using his cellphone but said that trail went cold Saturday evening and they had no information about his whereabouts since then.
It is not known how long Oropesa has been in the US since his last deportation, according to the source. “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.'”
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.As the victim’s families mourn, Argentina Guzman’s loved ones struggled to put their grief into words.
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