Global Courant 2023-04-30 10:45:31
Local authorities in Texas said this Saturday that the perpetrator of the shooting that killed five people of Honduran nationality, including an 8-year-old boy, “could be anywhere,” so the search perimeter has been expanded. ”
Now he could be anywhere,” the County Sheriff of California said at a press conference. San Jacinto (Texas), greg caperswho has led the response to the tragic event.
According to Capers, the search perimeter has gone from about 12 or 15 square kilometers to 25 or 50 square kilometers.
Initially, authorities believed they had the suspect cornered in a wooded area not far from where the shooting occurred. shooting; but, after an intense search, they found abandoned the phone with which they had tracked him down, as well as several items of clothing that he had gotten rid of.
Capers explained that dogs from the Department of Corrections in Texas They tracked the suspect for a while, but lost the trail when they reached a river.
The perpetrator of the shooting has been identified as Francisco Oropeza, 38, and a Mexican national. Local Texas authorities have offered a reward of up to $5 million to anyone with any information leading to his arrest.
Various agencies of the federal governmentincluding the fbiare collaborating in the investigation of the shooting, which occurred in the town of Cleveland, in the county of San Jacinto and about 80 kilometers from houston.”
ARMED AND DANGEROUS
At the same press conference, the agent in charge of the office of the fbi in houstonJames Smith, warned that the perpetrator of the shooting is considered “armed and dangerous” and called on the neighbors to take precautions and be alert, so that they can notify the authorities if they see him. However, he asked the neighbors that do not “take the law into their own hands” and that notify the Police if they see it.
Capers explained that the perpetrator of the shooting could be armed, but indicated that the AR-15 assault rifle with which he perpetrated the shooting is in the hands of the authorities.
The suspect was known in the neighborhood because he liked to shoot in the garden of his house with an AR-15 rifle and the police had already had to intervene on a couple of occasions, Capers said.
On Friday night, the shooter was in the garden of his house shooting with his AR-15 rifle when one of his neighbors approached him and asked him to stop shooting because it was already too late and a baby was trying to sleep. .
The suspect responded by breaking into his neighbors’ home to shoot them in the neck and head, as if it were an “execution,” Capers described in another news conference early Saturday.
THE IDENTITY OF THE VICTIMS
This afternoon, Capers offered the names and ages of the people who lost their lives after receiving authorization from the families. Specifically, the names of the deceased are Daniel Enrique Lazo8 years old; Sonia Argentina Guzman25 years old; Diana Velasquez Alvarado21 years old; Obdulia Molina Rivera31 years old, and jose jonathan caceresof 18 years.
According to Capers, when the agents arrived at the house, they found the adults already dead, while the minor was taken by helicopter to a hospital, where he died.
The Police he saw how two of the deceased women were in the bedroom of the house and their bodies were on top of two of the children who survived, in an apparent attempt to protect them from the bullets.
The ten people inside the house lived together, although they were not part of the same family.
James Smith of the FBI and Greg Capers, San Jacinto Sheriff.
