![]() The victims have been identified as Diana Velásquez Alvarado, 21 Julisa Molina Rivera, 31 Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18 Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25 and Daniel Enrique Laso, 9, all from Honduras. “We never thought he was going to be right next door,” he said. Lozano said he hadn’t known the residents of the home where Oropeza was arrested but would sometimes say hi to them if they were walking by his house. ![]() A little more than an hour later, Oropeza was in custody, said FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul. The tip that finally ended the chase came at 5:15 p.m. The arrest came after authorities set up a widening dragnet of more than 250 people, drones and search dogs from multiple jurisdictions and offered $80,000 in reward money. Kean declined to comment on the tip that led authorities to the Conroe home, which he said was one that had not been previously checked by authorities. “We did confirm that was him on foot, running, but we lost track of him,” Kean said. Police had previously spotted him on Monday afternoon in Montgomery County, prompting several schools to lock down, Kean said at a news conference outside the county jail Wednesday. Oropeza is a Mexican national who has been deported four times between 20, according to U.S. Bond for Castilla was set at $5,000, Ellisor said. Lamar Nava is being held at the Montgomery County jail on a felony charge of hindering the apprehension or prosecution of a known felon. Bond is set at $1.5 million per count, for a total of $7.5 million, Ellisor said. Oropeza was charged Wednesday with five counts of first-degree murder during a court hearing in jail, said San Jacinto County Justice of the Peace Judge Randy Ellisor. Castilla was charged with marijuana possession but authorities also expect to charge him with obstructing Oropeza’s apprehension, Dillon said.Īt a news conference Wednesday, San Jacinto County Chief Deputy Sheriff Tim Kean said he couldn’t go into details about the other people who were arrested, including how many. Domingo Castilla, a friend of Oropeza, was arrested on Tuesday in the Trail’s End neighborhood where the victims were shot, Dillon said. Several others have also been arrested, authorities said, although they only shared details about one of them. ![]() They got him without people getting hurt or another shooting.” “A bunch of people got out with guns and they went straight to the house and surrounded the area,” Lozano, 39, said Wednesday, estimating that at least 50 officers surrounded the home two doors down from his. Lamar Nava was arrested at the house on Wednesday.Īuthorities identified Lamar Nava as Oropeza’s wife, though jail records list her as not being married but sharing a home address with him. Acting on a tip, authorities found him hiding under a pile of laundry in a closet after a four-day manhunt. Oropeza, 38, was arrested there on Tuesday evening, just 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the city of Cleveland, where the shootings took place. Tuesday, according to the prosecutor at the probable cause hearing. She initially told authorities she didn’t know where Oropeza was, but later told a federal agent that he showed up at the house about 1:30 a.m. The cousins refused to help.Īuthorities believe Lamar Nava was talking to investigators at the same time she was trying to help Oropeza, San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon said at a news conference. Lamar Nava also acknowledged delivering a message from Oropeza to his cousins in the area asking them to help him get out of the country, the prosecutor said at Lamar Nava’s probable cause hearing. ![]() LOZANO and NOMAAN MERCHANT (Associated Press)ĬLEVELAND, Texas (AP) - A man suspected of killing five of his neighbors in Texas after they asked him to stop shooting his gun near their house hid out just miles away from the slayings while he and his domestic partner plotted his escape to Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.įrancisco Oropeza showered and slept at the house outside the city of Conroe on Tuesday while Divimara Lamar Nava got him donuts from a nearby store, a prosecutor said.
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