Francisco Oropesa, 38, was arrested in the town of Cut and Shoot, Texas, in a home hiding “underneath some laundry”, Sheriff Greg Capers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police have accused him of killing five of his neighbours after an argument about him practice-shooting with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The victims were all from Honduras and included a nine-year-old child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Honduran Foreign Ministry identified the victims as Sonia Guzman, 28; Diana Velasquez, 21; Obdulia Molina, 31; Jonathan Caceres, 18, and Daniel Enrique Lazo, nine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suspect was arrested for five counts of murder after a member of the public contacted the FBI tip line, officials said in a news conference on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The arrest was made just over an hour after the tip was received, officials said, as they praised the bravery of the person who phoned it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authorities had offered a reward of $80,000 (\u00a364,000) for information leading to his arrest and this money will be given to the person who called in the tip off, officials confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It came after a huge manhunt involving several agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Tuesday, the FBI Houston office tweeted that the search was occurring in the US, as well as “across the border”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The suspect was taken into custody by members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, or Bortac, a specialised unit, Mr Capers, sheriff of San Jacinto County, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The man was captured in a property just one county over – about 10 miles (16km) – from where the shooting took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Capers said an investigation is under way into how the suspect obtained the weapon used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No other people are in custody as of Tuesday evening, police said, but those who were at the residence at the time of the arrest are being questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A makeshift memorial with floral tributes, balloons and soft toys has been placed outside the home where the shooting took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: A man suspected of killing five of his neighbours in a shooting near Houston on Friday has been arrested. Francisco Oropesa, 38, was arrested in the town of Cut and Shoot, Texas, in a home hiding “underneath some laundry”, Sheriff Greg Capers said. Police have accused him of killing five of his neighbours after an argument about him practice-shooting with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle nearby. The victims were all from Honduras and included a nine-year-old child. The Honduran Foreign Ministry identified the victims as Sonia Guzman, 28; Diana Velasquez, 21; Obdulia Molina, 31; Jonathan Caceres, 18, and Daniel… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31710,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31708\/revisions\/31710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"the](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/9AA3\/production\/_129578593_screenshot2023-05-02at6.14.40pm.png\")