More than 200 officers are searching for the gunman accused of shooting and killing five people, including an 8-year-old child, at a Texas home. There's now a collective $80K reward being offered for information that leads to his arrest, the FBI announced.
The FBI is helping in the manhunt for a gunman accused of shooting and killing five people at a Cleveland, Texas, home after neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle outdoors.More than 200 officers from multiple law enforcement agencies are searching for the gunman accused of shooting and killing five people, including a child, at a Cleveland, Texas, home after neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle outdoors, officials said Sunday.
Francisco Oropesa, 38, is accused of killing four adults and a child at a neighboring home Friday night in the city of Cleveland -- about 40 miles northeast of downtown Houston. Investigators initially started tracking Oropesa using his cellphone, but said that trail went cold Saturday evening -- and he could now be anywhere.
In a Twitter post earlier Sunday, the FBI warned the suspect is "armed and dangerous" and urged anyone who saw Oropesa not to approach him.Authorities said Sunday they were focused on capturing the suspect and bringing closure and justice to the five people killed. A day earlier, the sheriff described how the violence unfolded.
Then the home turned into a scene of carnage. Multiple people were later found dead in different rooms. Law enforcement initially spelled the suspect's name as "Oropeza" but the FBI said Sunday it will use the spelling "Oropesa" to "better reflect his identity in law enforcement systems." The FBI acknowledged he has been listed in various databases with both spellings.
Wilson Paz, director general of migrant protection for Honduras, told CNN all five victims were Honduran.
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