After Friday’s shooting in Cleveland, Texas, in which five Honduran people were killed, the assailant, 38-year-old Mexican Francisco Oropeza, has still not been captured. A mobile phone and discarded clothes were found in the area of operation. “The application of the full force of the law” demanded the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Honduras.
The shooting took place on Friday after 11 p.m. local time (Saturday after 6 a.m. in Poland) in Cleveland, Texas. Police said the assailant was 38-year-old Mexican Francisco Oropeza, a neighbor of the victims. A man attacked after being warned to stop firing guns in his garden because it wakes up children.
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The attacker shot a total of five people. The victims were aged eight, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-five and thirty-one. They all came from Honduras.
According to FBI information cited by Reuters, all the victims lived in the house, but were not members of the same family.
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The search continues
The police are still intensively searching for the perpetrator of the shooting. According to police, the man is armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and may be under the influence of drugs.
FBI agents are also involved in the search. “We’re tracking him with dogs, horseback and drones,” said Jacinto County Sheriff’s Greg Capers. He added that law enforcement found an abandoned mobile phone and some clothes scattered in a wooded area where the search was ongoing.
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Honduran Foreign Minister: We demand full application of the law
Honduran Foreign Minister Enrique Reina said the Honduran Consulate was in contact with authorities in Texas. “We demand the full force of the law be applied to the person responsible for this crime,” he tweeted.
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