Five Honduran citizens, including an 8-year-old boy, were killed this Friday in a house shooting in San Jacinto County.Texas), about 90 kilometers from Houston, the county sheriff’s office said Saturday.

The perpetrator of the shooting, a citizen of Mexico, He escaped and may be armed with an AR-15.the weapon that has been used in many shootings in recent years, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said at a press conference hours after the incident.

Capers explained that the victims were shot in the neck and head as if it were an “execution”.

The suspect was identified as Francisco Oropesa, aged 39, and he was charged with five counts of murderCapers told the newspaper Washington Post.

According to Greg Kuipers, the shooter is a citizen of Mexico.

The suspect was known in the area because he liked to shoot in the garden from his home with an AR-15 rifle, Capers said in a press briefing.

As Capers explained, the suspect broke into neighbor’s house after they asked him to stop firing his rifle in the garden because it was very late and the child was trying to sleep.

There were 10 people in the house. Of the five dead three were female, one was male, and the last was an 8-year-old boy.he clarified.

Arriving at the house, the agents found the adults already lifeless, and The juvenile was taken by helicopter to the hospital.where he died.

Three other children were taken to the hospital, all covered in blood but unharmed, Capers said. Washington Post.

Two women protected children with their bodies

When the police arrived, they saw two of the dead women were in the bedroom at home and their bodies lay on top of the two surviving children, apparently trying to protect them from bullets, as Kuipers explained in this press release.

local authorities They are offering a $5 million reward. anyone with information leading to the shooter’s arrest was told by the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook.

The sheriff’s office has the suspect’s consular card, as well as is there a video in which he goes to his neighbors’ house to shoot them.

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Capers told the radio network NPR that agents are looking for the shooter “every minute of every hour” and hope to find him soon.

By chain CNN, the suspect is about 20 kilometers from the scenein a wooded area, and the police surrounded him.

The agents knew something was wrong when they received a tip Friday night.

They immediately headed for the house, but on the way, the county’s communications center began to receive numerous calls from the 911 emergency number. warned that there was a shooting where the police were going.

When the agents arrived at the house, the shooting was already underway. the suspect fled.

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According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a non-profit project that tracks gun violence in the United States, through 2023. 174 mass executions were recorded..

GVA defines a mass shooting as a shooting that ends with four victimswhether killed or injured, not including the perpetrator if he or she was killed or injured during the event.

(EFE)