US: Police identify subject who killed five people, including a child, with machine gun

This Saturday, Texas police searched for a Mexican suspected of killing five Hondurans, including an eight-year-old boy, at a home near Houston during the latest mass shooting in the United States.

county authorities San Jacintonorth of Houston, reported that an arrest warrant had been issued for a 39-year-old man identified as Francisco Oropesaaccusing him of five murders.

“We have your card from the Mexican consulate,” San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said in a statement broadcast by the radio station. KTRK, chains ABCadding that the security system at the victims’ home “caught him approaching the front door with a weapon.”

The suspect is believed to have left the county, but residents have been urged to stay at home, the sheriff’s office said in a post on its Facebook page.

Investigators believe the man fired Semi-automatic rifle AR-15 on the patio next to the victims’ home when they asked him to stop while trying to put the baby to bed, US media reported.

Capers described the horrifying scene when officers entered the residence after receiving a phone call at around 11:30 p.m. on Friday to report “stalking”.

Victims ranging in age from eight to 40 were scattered from the front door through the house to an inner bedroom, where two of them – both women – were found on top of two child survivors of the massacre.

“In my opinion, they were actually trying to protect the babies and keep them alive,” Kuipers told the broadcaster. KTRK.

“The Full Weight of the Law”

The Honduran government asked for “the full weight of the law” to be applied after this “terrible crime”.

“We demand that the full weight of the law be applied to the person or persons responsible for this,” Foreign Minister Enrique Reina said, expressing condolences to the relatives of the victims in a tweet played by Honduran media.

He also noted that the Honduran consulate was instructed to “contact the authorities and closely follow the progress of the case.”

Sheriff Kuipers noted that all of the victims were shot “from the neck up, almost execution style, mostly in the head.”

Deputies found “several more people in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement. facebook. Three were hospitalized.

The suspect “was drunk and said, ‘I’ll do whatever I want in my yard,'” Capers explained.

“All the victims were from Hondurasthe sheriff said, adding that there were 10 people in the house at the time.

The shooting in Texas appears to be the latest in a series of murders that have occurred in everyday situations: A man knocked on the wrong door, a cheerleader got into the wrong car, someone drove into the wrong driveway by mistake. rolled into the neighboring yard.

United Statess, a country of about 330 million people, has about 400 million weapons, and mass shootings with fatalities are common. Efforts to tighten gun control in Congress have stalled for years.

So far this year, there have been more than 170 mass shootings in the country in which four or more people were injured or killed, according to the non-governmental organization Archives of Gun Violence. (AFP)