An investigation led the Sheriff's Office to also disclose that deputies took nearly four times as long as Sheriff Greg Capers initially said to arrive at the mass shooting.
but Oropeza was gone. With the search over, Capers had a message for the victims’ families.
What has played out under his watch is indicative of challenges police face across rural America, where small staffs must patrol vast jurisdictions. It also reveals the difficulty in holding powerful law enforcement officials accountable in isolated areas with little outside oversight. Officials provide an update after San Jacinto County mass shooting suspect Francisco Oropesa was captured on Tuesday evening.
"This place is open any time to the Texas Rangers," Kean said in an interview. "Any day they can come in here and go through this whole building top to bottom."Garcia said he walked over and asked Oropeza to take his target practice farther from their home. When Oropeza refused, Garcia and his wife made their first of many 911 calls at 11:34 p.m.By that point, Oropeza was already on the sheriff’s radar.
Deputies arrived on the street five minutes later, which was 42 minutes after the first 911 call, according to the timeline. Garcia’s wife, his 9-year-old son and three others were dead.Kean and another sheriff’s official said the initial calls came in as harassment complaints about Oropeza shooting on his own property and that some calls required a Spanish translator.
Kean said deputies "routinely" identify callers and anyone they are calling about, make sure no one is wanted, and look for evidence of gunfire, although he could not say whether they did so at the Pinkstons’ home. In logs, deputies wrote that the callers were "heavily intoxicated" and their neighbor denied having a weapon. The deputies suggested the gunfire was fireworks.
When LION CEO Mike Alexander tried to present the findings to commissioners in a closed-door meeting in August, he was surprised to find the sheriff there. Alexander, a former police chief, wrote in his subsequent report that Capers’ presence was "analogous to allowing a possible organized crime suspect to be present during a briefing between the investigating detective and prosecuting attorney.
Judges eventually dismissed and expunged the charges. Flynt, 57, unsuccessfully ran for sheriff against Capers in 2020.
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