The police launched a search from Monday yesterday Texas track down a man who killed five people, including a 9-year-old child, after they complained about the noise he made when he fired a rifle.

More than 250 local and federal agents are looking for the shooter, a Mexican named Francisco Oropesa.

Yesterday, the FBI confirmed it was still looking for Oropesa and asked the media to respect the mourning of the families of the victims.

The wanted man is considered armed and dangerous and could be “anywhere,” Sheriff Greg Kuipers, who is in charge of the investigation, warned over the weekend.

Authorities are offering $80,000 for any information that would help identify this “monster,” as FBI Special Agent James Smith called it.

“It was terrible”

The 38-year-old shooter reportedly staged a shooting Friday night at a home in Cleveland, a small town near Houston, Texas, killing five people, all of whom were Hondurans between the ages of 9 and 31.

According to an immigration source cited by CNN, after entering the US illegally, Oropes was deported to Mexico four times: twice in 2009 and again in 2012 and 2016.

Wilson Garcia, the attacker’s neighbor and one of the survivors of the massacre, lost his 9-year-old son and wife, as well as “two other people who died protecting my two and a half year life.” old daughter,” he explained.

“I have no words to describe what happened,” “it was terrible,” he stressed. He himself managed to escape through the window of the house.

The shooter was practicing handgun shooting in his garden when Garcia and two others asked him to keep practicing so his 30-day-old baby could sleep, authorities said.

“He told us that he was at home and he could do whatever he wanted,” Garcia continued, adding that he called the police five times and was assured that help would come.

Oropesa then entered Garcia’s home and began shooting passers-by “as if he had executed them with a bullet to the head,” Sheriff Capers said.

Survivors included three children “covered in the blood of women who rushed at them to save them,” he added.

In addition to Garcia’s 9-year-old son, his wife Sonia Argentina Guzmán, 21-year-old Diana Velázquez Alvarado, 31-year-old Julisa Molina Rivera, and 18-year-old José Jonathan Casares were killed.

Series of incidents

The incident rocked the US and Honduras and is one of a series of similar incidents that have taken place in the US in recent weeks.

In April, a 20-year-old woman was shot and killed in upstate New York when she accidentally walked into her garage. That same month, in Texas, a man opened fire on a group of cheerleaders when they mistook his car for theirs and tried to open the door. In addition, an African-American teenager was seriously injured when he mistyped an address and knocked on the door of a man’s home in Missouri.

On Sunday, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted that the victims of the Cleveland massacre were “illegal immigrants.”

But on Monday, he partially retracted his words, and his office noted that “one of the victims could be in the US legally.”

“Congress to take action”

“Five people have died and Greg Abbott called them ‘illegal immigrants,'” Julian Castro, former secretary to President Barack Obama and former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, tweeted.

“Prayers alone are not enough. Congress must take action,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said yesterday, calling for tougher gun regulations.

“Most Americans and gun owners support taking reasonable measures to reduce violence (…) There is a time to save lives and prevent the next massacre,” he added.

Foreign Minister of Honduras Enrique Reina demanded that the perpetrator be held accountable for his actions.

There are more guns in the US than people. Firearms are responsible for more than 130 deaths a day, more than half of which are suicides.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}