A Mexican national is at large after he allegedly shot and killed five Texas neighbors late Friday when told to stop firing his rifle because a baby couldn't sleep.
Francisco Oropeza, 39, shot and killed his victims execution-style; detectives are now working to arrest him after he hid in a wooded area.
San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said that the mass shooting started with Oropeza firing an AR-15-style. 223 caliber in his yard shortly before midnight.
“One of the victims came out of the house and said, hey, we have a small baby that's trying to sleep. And the man said, I'll shoot out in my front yard, I do what I want to in my own residence.”
The sheriff said that the drunken shooter then followed the neighbor to his home where he shot him in the head in the doorway.
The second victim was found in the living room. The bodies of two women shielding their children were found upstairs and an eight-year-old boy died at a hospital; all victims were shot in the head.
“When we got here, the two females in the bedroom were actually laying over the top of the younger children, two of the three younger children that survived,” Capers said.
Three people were rushed to the hospital “covered in blood”; their condition remains unclear.
