Francisco Oropesa, 38, was arrested in the city of Cut and Shoot, Texas, San Jacinto County District Attorney Todd Dillon said Tuesday.
Dillon said that authorities are awaiting fingerprints to confirm the person arrested is Oropesa. He has been taken to the Montgomery County Jail and is charged with first-degree murder, he said.
The FBI said it planned a news conference Tuesday evening about the arrest.
This apprehension ends the sprawling search involving more than 250 law enforcement officers, the FBI, and a reward of $80,000 for information.
The arrest comes four days after the Friday night carnage in which Oropesa went to the home in the Trails End area in Cleveland, about 45 miles north of Houston, and opened fire, the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office said.
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Francisco Oropeza, 38, fled, after shooting and killing five people dead, including an 8-year-old boy.
San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said Saturday evening that authorities had widened the search to as far as 20 miles from the shooting scene, and that search expanded further in the days that followed.
Investigators found clothes and a phone while combing a rural area with dense layers of forest, but tracking dogs lost the scent, Capers said.
Police recovered the AR-15-style rifle that Oropeza allegedly used in the shootings, but authorities were unsure if he was carrying another weapon, the sheriff said.
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