Police on Tuesday arrested a 38-year-old Texas man accused of fatally shooting five of his neighbors—including a 9-year-old—near Houston last week, local authorities said Tuesday, ending a lengthy manhunt following what police described as an “execution-style” attack.
San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers speaks to the media outside of a crime scene where five ... [+]
Francisco Oropesa was arrested “without incident” at about 7 p.m. local time in Montgomery County, the local sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Oropesa was arrested one county over from Cleveland, Texas, the small city north of Houston where the shooting took place late Friday evening.
Hundreds of police officers have scoured the area for Oropesa in recent days, with authorities conducting door-to-door searches for the suspect, even as FBI officials said Sunday they had “zero leads” and weren’t sure if he fled the region.
This is a developing story; it will be updated.