![]() In a screengrab from video taken by a witness, Francisco Oropesa can be seen sitting in a law enforcement vehicle after being taken into custody Tuesday evening Courtesy Eva GutierrezĪuthorities for days urged the public to come forward with any information and devoted substantial resources to tracking down the suspect, including more than 250 law enforcement officers and a $80,000 in rewards for tips leading to his arrest. The Mexican consulate will be formally notified on Wednesday of Oropesa’s circumstances, according to the source. Authorities have 90 days to indict the suspect, the source said. Oropesa will appear before a magistrate in San Jacinto County Wednesday, a law enforcement source involved in the investigation told CNN. Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety, US Marshals Service and US Customs and Border Patrol’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit, known as BORTAC, entered the home and brought the suspect into custody, an FBI Houston spokesperson said.Īuthorities are now investigating whether the suspect had any help in hiding, San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon told CNN Tuesday night. It wasn’t immediately clear if that happened before or after the tip to the FBI. In addition to acting on the tip, law enforcement officials tracked Oropesa’s wife to a home near Cut and Shoot that was associated with one of his family members, a law enforcement source told CNN. “We just want to thank the person who had the courage and bravery to call in the suspect’s location,” he said. local time and Oropesa was arrested at 6:30 p.m. Investigators had initially started tracking Oropesa using his cellphone but said that trail went cold Saturday evening.Ī tip submitted through the FBI’s tip line ultimately led authorities to the suspect’s location, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul said. Oropesa, 38, is accused of carrying out the massacre Friday night after he was asked to stop shooting his rifle near a neighboring home, officials have said. The suspect will be held on five counts of murder with bond set at $5 million, the sheriff said. Though the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office said Oropesa was captured in the town of Cut and Shoot, the FBI Houston office tweeted that he was found in the neighboring city of Conroe. Suspect in Texas massacre had been deported 4 times after entering US illegally, ICE source says Sonia Argentina Gúzman and Daniel Enrique Laso-Guzman.
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