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Per a search warrant obtained exclusively by WFAA, investigators found several additional handguns, long guns and ammo inside Garcia's car at the outlet mall.

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SAN JACINTO COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- The man accused of shooting & killing 5 of his neighbors, including a 3rd grader, last week in San Jacinto County after he was asked to stop shooting his gun is still on the loose. We are learning more about Francisco Oropesa's background.

Oropesa is a Mexican national & has been deported from the U.S. 4 times. The last time was in 2016, & his current immigration status is still unclear.

The 38-year-old was convicted of driving while intoxicated back in 2012 in Montgomery County & was sentenced to serve time in jail.

Tuesday marks day 4 of an ongoing search for the suspected mass shooter.

Many people who live in that same neighborhood say that gunshots are pretty common, as people go out & shoot on their property. But none of them thought something like this would happen.

Stunned neighbors created a memorial for the victims who include a mother & her young son, 2 other women & an 18-year-old man.

Their names were Sonia Argentina Guzmán Taibot, Daniel Enrique Lazo Guzmán, Diana Velasquez Alvarado, Obdulia Molina Rivera & Josué Jonatan Cáceres.

On Sunday, Gov. Greg Abbott called them illegal immigrants in a tweet.

It turns out they may not be.

Jefrinson Josué Rivera, the longtime partner of Velasquez Alvarado. Josué Rivera said she was a lawful resident, calling Abbott "inhumane" for referring to the victims in that way.

He said he has the following questions for the governor -- "Why do they discriminate against immigrants so much? In what way are we affecting him? What harm have we caused him? He's making his living & we're here to make our own."

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CHICAGO (AP) — The father of an Illinois man charged with killing 7 people in a mass shooting at a July 4 parade in a Chicago suburb has been charged with 7 felony counts of reckless conduct.

Lake County State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said Robert Crimo Jr. surrendered to police on Friday & will have a bond hearing Saturday. Rinehart said the charges are based on Crimo sponsoring his then 19-year-old son’s application for a gun license in 2019.

“Parents & guardians are in the best position to decide whether their teenagers should have a weapon,” Rinehart said. “In this case, the system failed when Robert Crimo Jr. sponsored his son. He knew what he knew & he signed the form anyway.”

Rinehart wouldn’t further discuss what led his office to file the charges this week. Authorities have previously said the accused shooter, Robert Crimo III, attempted suicide by machete in April 2019 & in September 2019 was accused by a family member of making threats to “kill everyone.”

Both those reports came months before Crimo Jr. sponsored his son’s application in December 2019.

A grand jury in July indicted Robert Crimo III on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder & 48 counts of aggravated battery, representing the 7 people killed & dozens wounded in the Highland Park attack.

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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (Local10) – The sister of Wall Street fraudster Bernie Madoff and her husband were found dead in Palm Beach County.

Investigators said they believe it was a murder suicide.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office has identified the couple as 87-year-olld Sondra Weiner and her husband Marvin.

Their bodies were found on Thursday inside their home in Boynton Beach.

Madoff was infamously known for orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme that wiped out fortunes and ruined charities.

He was sentenced to 150 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud in 2009.

Madoff died behind bars last year at the age of 82.

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ATLANTA (AP) — A man already sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally shooting four people at a massage business outside Atlanta pleaded not guilty to shooting 4 others on the same day at 2 spas inside the city.

Robert Aaron Long, 22, appeared briefly Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, where he entered a not guilty plea on charges including murder, aggravated assault & domestic terrorism. District Attorney Fani Willis is seeking the death penalty.

In July, Long pleaded guilty in Cherokee County to charges including 4 counts of murder. He received 4 sentences of life without parole plus an additional 35 years.

Those killed in Cherokee County were: Paul Michels, 54; Xiaojie “Emily” Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; and Delaina Yaun, 33. The Atlanta victims were: Suncha Kim, 69; Soon Chung Park, 74; Hyun Jung Grant, 51; & Yong Ae Yue, 63.

Tuesday was the second time Long appeared before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville. The hearing lasted a few minutes. Glanville asked the defense if they wanted to waive indictment & plead not guilty, & defense attorney Jerilyn Bell said yes. Long did not address the judge. Glanville set the next hearing in the case for Nov. 23.

When the killings happened in March, Asian Americans were already experiencing an uptick in hostility related to the coronavirus pandemic. The fact that a majority of the slain victims were women of Asian descent exacerbated existing feelings of fear & anger. Many have been upset by Long’s assertions that he was motivated by the shame he felt from sexual urges, rather than by racial bias.

Cherokee County District Attorney Shannon Wallace said during the hearing in July that investigators found no evidence of racial bias motivating the killings. She said that had that case gone to trial, she was prepared to seek the death penalty & would have argued Long was motivated by gender bias.

Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, said last month that she believes race & gender played a role in Long’s motivation. Georgia’s hate crimes law does not provide for a stand-alone hate crime. After a person is convicted of an underlying crime, a jury must determine whether it was motivated by bias, which carries an additional penalty.

After shooting 5 people at Youngs Asian Massage in Cherokee County, Long drove about 30 miles south to Atlanta, where he shot 3 women at Gold Spa & 1 woman across the street at Aromatherapy Spa.

He then headed south on the interstate, and authorities have said he intended to carry out similar attacks in Florida.

But his parents had called police after recognizing their son in images from security video posted online by authorities in Cherokee County. His parents were already tracking his movements through an application on his phone, which allowed authorities to find him & take him into custody on a south Georgia interstate.

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At least 9 people are shot & 2 are dead following shootings in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Friday night.

Officers patrolling the 1900 block of Atlantic Avenue in a resort area heard multiple gunshots shortly after 11 p.m. local time Friday. At the crime scene at least eight gunshot victims were found, according to Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate.

Some of these injuries range from serious to life-threatening. One Virginia Beach police officer was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. One adult female victim died of her gunshot injuries at the scene.

There is no suspect information for this shooting available at this time, according to authorities.

At a second location, there was another crime scene where a suspect "relating to the above incident" engaged with an officer, which resulted in a police-involved shooting. An alleged male suspect is dead.

Several people are in custody, but it's unclear of their involvement in any of the shootings.

Virginia Beach police initially confirmed there had been a shooting at the oceanfront with "several victims."

"VBPD is investigating a shooting involving several victims with possibly life-threatening injuries. Large police presence at the oceanfront between 17th and 22nd St. Please avoid the area at this time," the department tweeted.

Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital confirms to ABC News that it is treating 6 patients with gunshot wounds. Their conditions were not immediately available.

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WRAL -- Wilmington, N.C. police used Facebook and tips from the public to identify a young woman they said tried to hit a former boyfriend with her car.

Police pulled a photo of Courtnay Danielle Lawrence, 22, posing with her damaged 2016 Hyundai Elantra from social media.

On Wednesday, police circulated video of the hit-and-run on Rutledge Drive where a dark sedan could be seen plowing into a walking couple.

A man in a dark, hooded sweatshirt manages to escape, while the car hits and flips a woman in a pink shirt.

The woman told police she and a male acquaintance were walking back from the store when she heard a horn and was hit. The woman suffered multiple injuries to her head, shoulder, hips and knees, according to police.

The Wilmington Police Department offered a reward of up to $5,000 for information on the driver of the car.

On Friday, they identified her as Lawrence and charged her with assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run, failure to give information/aid to personal injury and driving without a license.

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(ABC News) A woman who allegedly blew through a stop sign at 60 mph in South Carolina told an officer she shouldn't be arrested because she's a "very clean, thoroughbred, white girl," police said.

Lauren Elizabeth Cutshaw was slurring her words, she smelled of alcohol and her eyes were "bloodshot and glossy" when a police officer pulled her over in her 2011 white Ford Fusion in the town of Bluffton during the early morning hours of Aug. 4, according to the incident report.

A blood alcohol test registered at .18 percent, twice the legal limit.

Cutshaw apologized for speeding and running the stop sign, telling him she was on her way to her boyfriend's home after having a "couple" of glasses of wine at a nearby restaurant for her 33rd birthday. But when the officer advised her that she was under arrest for drunken driving, Cutshaw apparently listed multiple reasons why she shouldn't be locked up.

She said she had graduated with honors from a "high accredited university," was a cheerleader, a dancer and a sorority girl. She also repeatedly stated, "My partner is a cop," according to the report.

"I'm a very clean, thoroughbred, white girl," Cutshaw allegedly told the arresting officer. "I'm a white, clean girl."

When the officer, who is also white, asked, "What that had to do with anything?" Cutshaw apparently replied, "You're a cop, you should know that means."

"Making statements such as these as a means to justify not being arrested are unusual in my experience as a law enforcement officer and I believe further demonstrate the suspect's level of intoxication," the arresting officer wrote in the report.

When another officer later discovered marijuana and rolling papers in her car, Cutshaw said she "may have" smoked pot earlier that night, according to the report.

Cutshaw's "clean, thoroughbred, white girl" comment was not heard in footage from the arresting officer's dashboard camera, released by the Bluffton Police Department this week. However, after the officer handcuffed her and placed her in the back of his police car, Cutshaw can be heard pleading with him to "look at my record, it's so clean."

"You know that stop sign that you blew through at 60 miles per hour? There was a car that almost went through it right before you did. If they hadn't seen you coming, you would have T-boned them, you could have killed somebody," the officer tells Cutshaw as he drives her to the county jail. "And instead of a DUI, this would be a felony DUI, you're looking at 25 years."

"I've never been arrested, can't you see that in your system?" Cutshaw says. "Can't you see, I graduated from a really good university, I was almost valedictorian."

"I don’t wanna know what it’s like," she says about going to jail. "I’m a pretty girl. Please don’t make me go in there."

Cutshaw was charged with driving under the influence, speeding, disregarding a stop sign, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. She is scheduled to appear in municipal court Oct. 30, police said.

It was not immediately clear whether Cutshaw had obtained legal representation.

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PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — An orphaned 19-year-old who participated in paramilitary drills with a white nationalist group was charged with murder Thursday in the deaths of 17 people who were fatally shot at a huge Florida high school in the nation’s deadliest school attack in five years.

Nikolas Cruz legally purchased the AR-15 rifle used in the assault at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

As the criminal case against the suspect took shape, the leader of a white nationalist militia called the Republic of Florida said Cruz was a member of his group and participated in exercises in Tallahassee.

Jordan Jereb told The Associated Press that did not know Cruz personally and that “he acted on his own behalf” and is “solely responsible for what he just did.”

The group wants Florida to become its own white ethno-state. Jereb said his organization holds “spontaneous random demonstrations” and tries not to participate in the modern world.

He also said Cruz had “trouble with a girl” and that he believed the timing of the attack, on Valentine’s Day, was not a coincidence.

In a national address from the White House, President Donald Trump said he wanted America’s children to know, “You are never alone, and you never will be.”

He said no child should have to go to school in fear of getting killed. He planned to travel to Florida meet with victims’ families, explore how to better secure schools and to “tackle the difficult issue of mental health.”

At no point did Trump mention guns or how to control them.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he wants the Justice Department to study how mental illness affects criminal behavior, to better understand how law enforcement can use existing laws to prevent school shootings.

“It cannot be denied that something dangerous and unhealthy is happening in our country,” Sessions told a group of sheriffs in Washington. In “every one of these cases, we’ve had advance indications and perhaps we haven’t been effective enough in intervening.”

Republican Gov. Rick Scott said he’s already told Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran that “if someone is mentally ill, he should not have access to a gun.”

Broward County Schools Superintendent Rob Runcie said “now is the time to have a real conversation about gun control legislation.” And if adults cannot manage that in their lifetimes, he said, students will do it.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel called for giving law enforcement more power to detain people who make threats.

“What I’m asking our lawmakers to do is go back to places like Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., to give police the power,” the sheriff said, to detain people who make graphic threats or post disturbing material online, and bring them involuntarily to mental health professionals to be examined.

Thirteen wounded survivors were hospitalized, including two people in critical condition.

Some bodies remained inside the high school Thursday as authorities investigate the crime scene, the sheriff said. The slain included a school athletic director and another adult who worked as a monitor at the school. Runcie called them heroes.

Cruz was ordered held without bond and booked into jail, still wearing a hospital gown from his treatment for labored breathing. The jail said he is 5-foot-7 and weighs 131 pounds.

It was the nation’s deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012. The overall death toll differs by how such shootings are defined, but Everytown For Gun Safety has tallied 291 school shootings in America since 2013, and this attack makes 18 so far this year.

Trump lamented in a tweet that there were “So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior. Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!”

Cruz legally purchased the AR-15 used in the attack about a year ago, law enforcement officials told the AP. The officials, not authorized to discuss this publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity. Federal law allows people 18 and older to legally purchase long guns, including this kind of assault weapon.

FBI agent Rob Lasky said the agency investigated a 2017 YouTube comment posted with the screen name Nikolas Cruz that said “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.” Lasky said the FBI did a database review, but couldn’t determine the time or location of the post, or the true identity of the person making the comment.

Ben Bennight, whose YouTube username is “BenTheBondsman,” posted a video Wednesday saying he had spotted the comment on Sept. 24, took a screenshot, flagged it for YouTube and called an FBI office in Mississippi to report it. He said two FBI agents visited him the next day.

“I knew that I couldn’t just ignore that,” Bennight said. The FBI called him again Wednesday within about two hours of the shooting, and one agent interviewed him in person, he said.

“Basically they’re going to have to get with YouTube about where the comment originated, but I think they already know,” he said.

Authorities offered no immediate details about a possible motive, except to say that Cruz had been kicked out of the high school, which has about 3,000 students. Students who knew him described a volatile teenager whose strange behavior had caused others to end friendships with him.

Cruz’s mother, Lynda Cruz, died of pneumonia on Nov. 1 neighbors, friends and family members said, according to the Sun Sentinel . Cruz and her husband, who died of a heart attack several years ago, adopted Nikolas and his biological brother, Zachary, after the couple moved from Long Island in New York to Broward County.

The boys were left in the care of a family friend after their mother died, said family member Barbara Kumbatovich, of Long Island.

Unhappy there, Nikolas Cruz asked to move in with a friend’s family in northwest Broward County. That family agreed, and Cruz moved in around Thanksgiving. According to the family’s lawyer, who did not identify them, they knew that Cruz owned the AR-15 but made him keep it locked up in a cabinet. He did have the key, however.

Attorney Jim Lewis told the AP that the family is cooperating with authorities and had no idea he was planning the shooting.

He seemed like “just a mildly troubled kid who’d lost his mom” during the three months they lived together, Lewis said.

Lewis also said the family was not aware of any other weapons in the gun cabinet he had. Photos posted in an Instagram account linked to Cruz show half a dozen weapons displayed on a mattress and a box of ammunition.

Victoria Olvera, a 17-year-old junior, said Cruz was expelled last school year because he got into a fight with his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. She said he had been abusive to the girl.

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