Texas shooting: Wife who ‘hid’ man suspected of killing five neighbours is arrested | US News

The wife of a man suspected of shooting dead five of his neighbours in Texas has been arrested.

Divimara Lamar Nava, 53, is in custody in connection with the massacre allegedly conducted by Francisco Oropeza on Friday night in Cleveland.

Oropeza, 38, fled the scene of the shooting and, after a four-day search, was discovered hidden underneath a laundry pile in a house in the city of Conroe, roughly 20 miles (32km) from where the incident happened.

Nava, believed to be the wife of Oropeza by Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Anderson despite not being listed as legally married, had previously denied knowledge of her partner’s location.

However, officers were led to believe she hid him in their Conroe shared home, where he was found and arrested on Tuesday.

Nava was arrested on Wednesday and held in prison on a charge of “hindering the apprehension or prosecution of a known felon”, according to online prison records.

Oropeza is suspected of carrying out the attacks after his neighbours asked him to stop firing a gun in his garden late at night because a baby was trying to sleep.

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Wilson Garcia, the father of the one-month-old who had been crying before the shooting, described how Oropeza came into his family home, first shooting his wife then his nine-year-old son.

The gunman’s victims were all from Honduras and have been identified as Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18; Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 9.

The murder suspect is from Mexico, and faced deportation four times over the space of seven years, according to US immigration.

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said: “[Oropeza] will be charged with five counts of murder.”