Rene Arevalo Sr., who lives a few houses down, said he heard gunshots around midnight but didn't think anything of it. A horse could be seen behind the victim's home, while in the front yard of Oropeza's house a dog and chickens wandered. The shooting took place on a rural pothole-riddled street where single-story homes sit on wide 1-acre lots and are surrounded by a thick canopy of trees.

The suspect responded by telling them that it was his property, Capers said, and one person in the house got a video of the suspect walking up to the front door with the rifle. The confrontation followed the neighbors walking up to the fence and asking the suspect to stop shooting rounds, Capers said. The victims were identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25 Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21 Julisa Molina Rivera, 31 Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18 and Daniel Enrique Laso, 8. He said two of the victims were found in a bedroom laying over two children in an apparent attempt to shield them.Ī total of three children found covered in blood in the home were taken to a hospital but found to be uninjured, Capers said.įBI spokesperson Christina Garza said investigators do not believe everyone at the home were members of a single family. The mass killings have played out in a variety of places - a Nashville school, a Kentucky bank, a Southern California dance hall, and now a rural Texas neighborhood inside a single-story home.Ĭapers said there were 10 people in the house - some of whom had just moved there earlier in the week - but that that no one else was injured. so far this year, some of which have also involved semiautomatic rifles.

The attack was the latest act of gun violence in what has been a record pace of mass shootings in the U.S. All were shot “from the neck up,' he said. The attack happened near the town of Cleveland, north of Houston, on a street where some residents say neighbors often unwind by firing off guns.Ĭapers said the victims were between the ages of 8 and 31 years old and that all were believed to be from Honduras.

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