The main suspect in the shooting in Texas (United States) that last week claimed the lives of five Hondurans, Francisco Oropesa, was arrested this Tuesday in the Texas town of Cut and Shoot, a few kilometers from the place where the massacre took place, They confirmed this Tuesday to the authorities.
In a press conference on Tuesday night, the San Jacinto County (Texas) sheriff, Greg Capers, confirmed that Oropesa is in police custody, and that he was discovered hiding in a closet after a citizen gave a tip. to the FBI.
Capers confirmed that the person who gave the tip will be entitled to receive a reward of $80,000. Oropesa faces five counts of murder and is being held on $5 million bail.
“He’s behind bars, and he’s going to live his life behind bars for killing those five people,” Capers said, reassuring relatives of the victims. Oropesa is a 38-year-old citizen of Mexican nationality.
On Friday night he was shooting with his semi-automatic rifle in the garden of his house in the Texas town of Cleveland when one of his neighbors approached him and asked him to stop making noise because it was very late and the family, including some children I couldn’t fall asleep.
The man responded by breaking into his neighbors’ home to shoot them in the neck and head, as if it were an “execution,” according to the police report. Inside the house there were 10 people and five lost their lives. The names of the deceased are Daniel Enrique Lazo, 9 years old; Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Diana Velasquez Alvarado, 21; Obdulia Molina Rivera, 31, and José Jonathan Cáceres, 18 years old.
Diana Velásquez had permanent residence in the US, while the rest were in the country irregularly. According to the US authorities, Oropesa had been deported to Mexico at least four times since 2009. More than 200 agents from different security agencies participated in the persecution, which lasted for four days.
