The main suspect of shooting in texas than last week claimed the lives of five people He has been arrested in the Texas town of Cut and Shoot, a few kilometers from the place where the massacre took place, as confirmed by the authorities.

In a press conference Tuesday night, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers confirmed that Francisco Oropesa is in police custody and that was discovered hiding in a closet after a citizen tipped off the FBI. Capers has also indicated that the person who gave the tip will 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 will live his life behind bars for killing those five people“, has asserted the sheriff, who has sent a message of tranquility to the relatives of the victims.

Oropesa, 38, was shooting with his semi-automatic rifle in the garden of his home on Friday night in the town of Cleveland when one of his neighbors asked him to stop making noise because it was very late and the family, including the children, could not sleep.

The man replied breaking into their 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: Daniel Enrique Lazo, nine years old; Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Diana Velasquez Alvarado, 21; Obdulia Molina Rivera, 31, and José Jonathan Cáceres, 18 years old.

In the persecution of the fugitive, which lasted for four days Until his arrest, more than 200 agents from different security agencies have participated.