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🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. It is a horrific crime, even by the standards |
0:11.8 | of a nation that has become all too familiar with horrific crimes and gun violence, a nation |
0:17.7 | that often bears witness to more than one mass shooting a day. Five people were brutally |
0:22.9 | murdered Friday night in Cleveland, Texas by a gunman with an AR-15 rifle. The spark, |
0:28.9 | if you will, for the shooting, a complaint from a neighbor. Here's how the New York Times |
0:33.2 | reports what happened. Quote, Francisco Oropeza was firing his gun in his yard, again on Friday |
0:38.9 | night, rattling off loud bangs that were keeping Wilson Garcia's baby awake. So Mr. Garcia |
0:45.0 | said he went over to his neighbor and asked if he could stop. Mr. Oropeza, who the authority |
0:50.3 | said had been drinking, said no. His yard, he said, his rules. Mr. Garcia, 30, warned |
0:56.7 | that he would call the police. But after Mr. Oropeza, 38, walked back to his house, he |
1:01.9 | re-emerged with an AR-15. He walked toward Mr. Garcia's cream-colored home where he shot |
1:07.7 | and killed Mr. Garcia's wife, who had called the police and was standing near the entrance. |
1:13.3 | The rampage continued inside Mr. Garcia's home, where the authority said Mr. Oropeza |
1:18.5 | fatally shot for other people, almost execution style. One of the victims is a nine-year-old |
1:25.5 | little boy. His name is Daniel Enrique Lazo. The other victims are all members of one family. |
1:31.8 | They are new to this country, all of them, helling from Honduras, including Garcia's |
1:36.1 | wife, Sonia Guzman, 25 years old, Diana Velasquez, Alvarado, 21 years old, Julissa Molina Rivera, |
1:44.6 | 31, and Jose Jonathan Casar is 18. Authorities say that three children survived the shooting, |
1:52.0 | and they survived because they were underneath or shielded by two of the women who were killed. |
1:57.7 | A manhunt is underway for the gunmen who's believed to be armed in dangerous. More than |
2:02.7 | 250 officers are on the search as the FBI warns that they have, quote, zero leads and are |
2:09.0 | quote, running into dead ends. Meanwhile, a family, an entire family, a community is grappling |
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