“I am trying to be strong for my children,” he said, crying. “My daughter sort of understands. It is very difficult when she begins to ask for mama and for her (older) brother.”
CLEVELAND, Texas — Wilson Garcia hadn’t even asked his neighbor to stop shooting his gun.
The suspect, 38-year-old Francisco Oropeza, remained at large Monday despite a search involving more than 250 law enforcement officers from multiple jurisdictions. “I told my wife, ‘Get inside. This man has loaded his weapon,” Garcia said. “My wife told me to go inside because ‘he won’t fire at me, I’m a woman.’”
“I am trying to be strong for my children,” Garcia said, crying. “My daughter sort of understands. It is very difficult when she begins to ask for mama and for her brother.” He likely fled the area on foot. During the early hours of the search, investigators found clothes and a phone while combing an area that includes dense layers of forest, but tracking dogs lost the scent, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said.
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