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An elaborate hunt to find the five-time killer
Texas authorities were conducting a manhunt Monday to find a gunman suspected of killing five people, including an 8-year-old child who complained about the sound of his gun.
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Francisco Oropesa (FBI photo) allegedly shot and killed five neighbors who asked them to stop firing guns in his garden.
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In Texas, more than 200 local and federal police officers on Monday searched the southern US state for a Mexican man identified as Francisco Oropeza. Guns abound. Considered armed and dangerous, he “could be anywhere,” Sheriff Greg Capers, who is in charge of the investigation, warned during a press conference over the weekend.
Authorities have offered an $80,000 reward for any information leading to the whereabouts of this “monster,” as FBI Special Agent James Smith called it.
“Regarding an Execution”
A 38-year-old gunman is suspected of opening fire inside a home in Cleveland, near Houston, between Friday night and Saturday, killing five people, including a 31-year-old from Honduras and an 8-year-old. According to local authorities, he was practicing shooting in his garden when neighbors asked him to stop the noise so that a child could sleep.
In response, the suspect allegedly entered his neighbor’s home and shot several residents “punitively, mainly in the head,” Sheriff Capers said. The news caused a stir in the United States and in the small Central American country of Honduras.
Controversies
On Sunday, the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbottposted a tweet, condemned by his opponents, in which he pointed out that his victims were “illegal immigrants”.
This elected official has been highly critical of President Joe Biden’s Democratic administration Migration issuesThe busing of illegal immigrants to Democratic strongholds in the United States has sparked other controversy in recent months.
There are more personal firearms in the United States than people, and they cause more than 130 deaths per day, more than half of which are suicides.
(AFP)
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