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Texas gunman kills five neighbours

A Mexican living in Texas is on the run after killing five of his neighbors, including an eight-year-old boy, because they asked him to stop practicing firing his gun in his yard. Five people have died after a shooting at a Texas home, police said. Four people were pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting and a fifth died at a hospital in Cleveland, the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office said early Saturday.

The gunman, described as a 39-year-old Mexican man believed to have fled the country, shot his neighbors with an AR-15-style rifle after they asked him to stop shooting in his yard because they were trying to sleep. , authorities said Saturday.

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Texas gunman kills five neighbours including child, 8

The deceased, whose ages ranged from eight to forty, were from Honduras. Three surviving victims were transported to the hospital and two other witnesses on the scene were evaluated by first responders and released. The shooting was reported around 10:30 p.m. in the 100 block of Walters Road in the Trails End area of the community about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Houston.

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Night shift patrol officers were dispatched to a residence in reference to a harassment complaint. On their way there, they received multiple 911 calls of an active shooter incident at the dispatch location. The man has yet to be publicly named. At 11:30 p.m. last night, he opened fire on the family who lives next door to his home in Cleveland, a city north of Houston.

The neighbors, a family of 10 who live together, have asked her to stop firing his gun because they were trying to put a baby to sleep. The gunman replied ‘I’ll do whatever I want in my front yard’ and shot them with an AR-15 before fleeing. When police arrived at the scene, they found two adult women dead in the front of the house and a man dead in the living room.

The two women were covered in blood, according to San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers, and lay on top of two small children who survived. “In my opinion, they were really trying to take care of the babies and keep them alive,” he said. It’s unclear where exactly the eight-year-old was at the home.

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All the victims were from Honduras, according to police. The gunman, who has yet to be publicly identified, was said to have been drunk at the time. Police described him as a Mexican man who is around 5-foot-8. A warrant was issued for his arrest with a $5 million bond attached. “We’re getting closer to him every minute of every hour, but we know who he is,” Sheriff Capers said.Read More……

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