Extra particulars are rising concerning the lives of the 5 victims killed final week in a mass taking pictures in Cleveland, Texas.
The suspect within the bloodbath, Francisco Oropesa, was apprehended in Conroe, Texas, Tuesday night after a four-day manhunt. The FBI mentioned he was discovered hiding in a laundry closet.
Neighbors had allegedly requested Oropesa to cease firing his rifle in his yard late Friday so {that a} child might sleep. The 38-year-old suspect, who authorities recognized from video on the scene and by a Mexican consulate card, then allegedly entered the neighboring dwelling and opened fireplace on 5 of the ten individuals inside, killing the victims execution-style.
The victims have since been recognized as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, and her 9-year-old son, Daniel Enrique Laso; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; and Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18.
Sonia Argentina Guzman and Daniel Enrique Laso, two of the victims within the taking pictures on April 28 in Cleveland, Texas. ( )
Sonia Argentina Guzman
Guzman, the mom of youngest sufferer Daniel Enrique Laso, had introduced her baby to the U.S. when he was 3 years outdated “for a greater future,” her brother Ramiro Guzman has mentioned.
In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Ramiro Guzman mentioned Sonia settled in Cleveland as a result of the greenery there reminded her of her hometown of La Misión in Honduras.
Ramiro mentioned Guzman, who despatched remittances to her mom for years, achieved her purpose of offering a house for her mom and her youthful siblings who nonetheless reside within the Central American nation.
“Everybody comes right here with a plan, with a purpose,” Ramiro additionally informed NBC Information, noting that his mom hasn’t seen Sonia for a decade. “Now my mother goes to see my sister, however within the worst approach. She’s going to see my nephew within the worst approach.”
Daniel Enrique Laso
Laso used to experience bicycles to a college bus cease with the kid of the suspect, Ramiro Guzman informed NBC Information this week.
“My nephew, he at all times would take his bicycle to the place the college bus would cease,” Ramiro Ramiro mentioned. “Typically they went collectively, my nephew and his baby.”
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“They at all times went on their bicycles collectively. They had been like associates,” he added. “And he killed him.”
The Cleveland Impartial College District held a neighborhood prayer vigil for Daniel two days after he was killed.
It mentioned it was “heartbroken studying the information in regards to the loss of life of certainly one of our college students.”
Diana Velazquez Alvarado died whereas defending youngsters from gunfire on Friday, April 28 in Cleveland, Texas. ( )
Diana Velazquez Alvarado
Alvarado died Friday whereas shielding a number of youngsters who survived the assault.
She got here to the U.S. from Honduras with aspirations of changing into a cosmetologist, her boyfriend and relative of Sonia Argentina Guzman, Jeffri Rivera, informed the Houston Chronicle.
Alvarado had youngsters ages 2 and 4.
“She simply wished our youngsters to thrive,” Rivera mentioned.
Julisa Molina Rivera, left, and Jose Jonathan Casarez had been a pair, a report mentioned. ( )
Julisa Molina Rivera
Julisa Rivera additionally died whereas defending younger youngsters through the taking pictures.
Jeffri Rivera informed the Houston Chronicle that Julisa arrived within the U.S. from Honduras in 2022 and “she labored exhausting and took care of her youngsters.”
Jose Jonathan Casarez
Casarez, a nephew of Jeffri and the boyfriend of Julisa Molina Rivera, reportedly labored in building and transformed houses.
His dream was to offer his North Carolina-based mom and his father, who remains to be in Honduras, a snug life, in response to the Houston Chronicle.
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“He was actually joyful, at all times smiling,” Jeffri mentioned to the newspaper, including that Casarez cared for Julisa’s 6-year-old and 9-month-old youngsters as in the event that they had been his personal.
Ramiro Guzman additionally informed the newspaper that Casarez loved going to the flicks and fishing.
Fox Information’ Danielle Wallace contribtued to this report.