Texas police arrest man accused of killing 5 neighbours after 4-day manhunt

killing five neighbors ended Tuesday not far from the site of the shooting when authorities, acting on a tip, said they found the suspect hiding underneath a pile of laundry in the closet of a house.Francisco Oropeza, 38, was captured without incident near Houston and about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from his home in the rural town of Cleveland, where authorities say he went next door and shot his neighbors with an AR-style rifle after some of them had asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because it was keeping a baby awake.“They can rest easy now, because he is behind bars,” San Jacinto County Greg Capers said of the families of the victims. “He will live out his life behind bars for killing those five.”The arrest happened near Conroe, ending what had become a widening dragnet that had grown to more than 250 people from multiple jurisdictions.

As recently as Tuesday morning, the FBI said that Oropeza “could be anywhere,” underlining how investigators for days struggled to get a sense of his whereabouts and candidly acknowledged they had no leads.Drones and scent-tracking dogs were used during a widening search that included combing a heavily wooded forest a few miles from the scene.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott offered $50,000 in reward money as the search dragged late into the weekend.FBI spokesperson Connor Hagan said the three agencies that went in to arrest Oropeza were the U.S.

Marshals, Texas Department of Public Safety and US Border Patrol’s BORTAC team.The alleged shooter is a Mexican national who has been deported four times, according to U.S.