2023-04-29 16:05:00
As the authorities announced on Saturday, the Honduran victims were killed at night in a house near Houston. The suspect, who is from Mexico, is on the run.
As reported by US media, the shooter did target practice with his assault rifle in his garden on Friday evening. When his neighbors asked him to stop because their children mightn’t sleep, the man ran amok.
Two young children survived
The neighbors called the police around 11:30 p.m. local time, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said. When the officers arrived, they saw a horrible picture: they found four dead and several seriously injured in the house. Four people were taken to the hospital, but an eight-year-old child died from his injuries.
According to the sheriff, the victims lay throughout the house, from the front door to a bedroom. Two small children, lying under two dead women, survived the carnage.
Capers said on ABC local station KTRK the women saved their children by protecting the little ones with their own bodies. The attacker literally executed his victims, most of them with shots in the head. The man was drunk and is said to have said to his neighbors: “I can do whatever I want in my front yard.”
Search for attacker in progress
“All the victims came from Honduras,” Capers said at a press conference. The attacker, who came from Mexico, is being sought. An arrest warrant for five counts of murder had been issued once morest the 39-year-old suspect, the police said. She asked everyone living in the area to stay at home as a precaution.
Gun violence is a big problem in the US. The right to own a gun is enshrined in the US Constitution, according to the prevailing interpretation, and the country has more guns than residents: one in three adults owns at least one gun, and almost one in two adults lives in a household where a gun is available .
According to the Gun Violence Archive website, there have been more than 170 gun attacks this year, killing or injuring four or more people.
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