A fifth – the youngest victim at eight years old – died later at the hospital. Of the 10 people in the house, four people were found dead at the scene. “Everyone that was shot was shot from the neck up, almost execution-style,” Capers said. Currently, mass killings happen once every six and a half days, according to an analysis by the Associated Press and USA Today.Ĭapers told reporters that the killings in Cleveland unfolded at about 11.30pm local time. That puts the United States at a record pace of mass killings this year. It defines a mass killing as one in which four or more victims are slain. The archive defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are killed or wounded. The killing, less than a year after the deadliest mass shooting at a Texas public school left 19 students and two teachers dead in Uvalde, marked the 174th mass shooting and 17th mass killing in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Capers told reporters that video footage showed Oropeza walking up to the neighbors’ front door with the rifle. Oropeza responded by saying that it was his property. By Saturday afternoon, as police continued to search for his whereabouts, Capers reportedly told local media that authorities believed they had cornered Oropeza in a wooded area.įamily members had walked to his fence and asked Oropeza to cease shooting rounds in his yard because an infant was trying to sleep. Oropeza is facing five charges of murder, Capers told the Washington Post.
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