A Texas sheriff said the man suspected of killing 5 of his neighbors, including a 9-year-old, has been taken into custody following a days-long manhunt. The man's wife and several other people were also arrested.
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Oropeza, 38, was captured without incident near the community of Conroe, north of Houston and about 20 miles from his home in the rural town of Cleveland. That's where authorities say he went next door and shot his neighbors with an AR-style rifle shortly before midnight Friday. The arrest ends what had become a widening dragnet that had grown to more than 250 people from multiple jurisdictions and had seen $80,000 in reward money offered. As recently as Tuesday morning, the FBI said that Oropeza "," underlining how investigators for days struggled to get a sense of his whereabouts and candidly acknowledged they had no leads.
San Jacinto County Chief Deputy Tim Kean at a news conference on Wednesday said several additional arrests have been made but did not go into details on their involvement in the crime or the search for the suspect.Drones and scent-tracking dogs had been used during the widening manhunt, which included combing a heavily wooded forest a few miles from the scene. Republican Gov.
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