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Five people have been killed in a mass shooting in Texas, police say.Getty Images
Police say a man shot and killed five people after they asked him to stop firing from his front porch.
The victims had asked the suspected shooter to calm down because they had a baby trying to sleep.
The youngest victim is an 8-year-old child. The suspect remains on the loose, according to police KTRK TV.
Neighbors came to a Texas man’s fence and asked him to stop firing his gun in his yard because they had a baby next door trying to sleep.
In response, police say the man went next door drunk and killed five people with an AR-15 style rifle. ABC news reported. He remains free.
It is the latest in a series of shootings resulting from seemingly normal and even mundane interactions.
In Kansas City, 16 years old Ralph Yarl was shot in the head after accidentally going to the wrong house to pick up his younger siblings. In New York, a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed after she and her friends their car into the wrong driveway.
The authorities of the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office have communicated this KTRK TV, a local ABC News affiliate in Houston, that the as-yet-unnamed suspect was drunk and fired shots from his front porch in Cleveland, Texas. Neighbors intervened at around 11:30 p.m. on Friday.
“It is my understanding that the victims came to the fence and said, ‘Hey, would you (you can’t do) shoot in the yard? We have a young baby trying to sleep,'” Sheriff Greg Capers told KTRK. . “And he had been drinking, and he says, ‘I’ll do whatever I want in my front yard.'”
Then the agitated man retaliated, police said.
When police arrived at the scene, there were at least 10 people in the home, several of whom had been shot “from the neck to near execution style”. Five victims are dead, including an 8-year-old child, KRTK reported. Three others are injured, their condition is unknown, KHOU-11reported another local TV station.
“When we got here, the two females in the bedroom were on top of two of the three younger (surviving) children,” Capers told KTRK. He added that the victims were “trying to take care of the babies and keep them alive,” according to ABC News.
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The sheriff said the suspect had a history of firing from his property, which they determined from all the shell casings lying around his front yard.
Neighbors in Cleveland were told to “stay indoors” and “stay clear” of the crime scene as authorities work to locate the suspect.
A judge has issued an arrest warrant and $5 million bail in the case, KTRK reported.
“We’re getting closer to him every minute of every hour, but we know who he is,” Capers told ABC.
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