SAN JACINTO COUNTY, TX. (THECOUNT) — A four-day manhunt in Texas for Mexican national, Francisco Oropeza, the gunman accused of killing five neighbors, ended Tuesday not far from the site of the shooting when authorities, acting on a tip, officials said they found the suspect hiding under a pile of laundry in the closet of a house.
Oropeza conducted a Friday night shooting that took the lives of at 5 people including an 9-year-old child in San Jacinto County, Texas.
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According to Gateway Pundit, Oropoza was intoxicated and began shooting an AR-15 outside on his front porch. That’s when neighbors asked Oropeza to be quiet because they had a baby who was trying to sleep, according to ABC 13 News.
The Texas Department of Corrections has sent a team with dogs, officers on horseback and a drone in the air to assist with Oropeza’s arrest, police said.
Geo quick facts: San Jacinto County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 27,402. Its county seat is Coldspring. The county’s name comes from the Battle of San Jacinto which secured Texas’ independence from Mexico and established a republic in 1836 – Wikipedia.