after shooting these people, his neighbors, in effect. how are authorities responding to that possibility? right. we know he entered the country four times illegally prior. shows some ability to go back and forth across that border. do they think that s what s happened here? reporter: yeah, you re spot on, jim. that is the main concern here. i m told by law enforcement source that border control officers on both sides of the u.s./mexico border are on alert. they ve been briefed on this case. they have the suspect, fran kis koe oropesa s photograph. they re on the look out. we re learning that there were those four separate instances in the past where the suspect made his way to the united states, was deported and then came back. that was in march of 2009, six months later in september he s again deported from the united states. then in january of 2012, he is once again deported in that same year, he s convicted of a dwi and served some amount of jail time. but just some four years la
i.c.e. confirming he was physically removed from the country in 2009, again in 2012, again in 2016, and there was a dwi on his record dating back to 2009. that s, of course, small compared to the rest of the landscape of what we re talking about right now. four deportations. politicians, of course, jumped right in. governor abbott here in texas discussing the illegal status, not just of the suspect in this case, but also of the family that was slaughtered. a lot of criticism as to why that was relevant in any way. john cornyn, senator from texas, weighing in, saying that the actions of a criminal should not reflect tens or millions of law-abiding immigrants. he also said this is an example of how there are devastating impacts for not enforcing laws at our border. you re seeing the politicization of the situation, with pushback, certainly. with respect to the shooter s background, not just that, there were calls to his house. the sheriff couldn t specify how many or when, of him dischar
multiple deportations in the past. abc s matt rivers on the scene for us. tonight hundreds of officers on the ground looking for this man, who authorities say shot and killed five neighbors after an argument, including a mother and her 9-year-old son. we re asking everyone for your help so we can bring this suspect, or this monster i will call him, to justice. suspect francisco oropeza is a mexican national. a course telling abc news he was deported four separate times from the u.s. and served jail time for a dwi in 2012. the shooting unfolding late friday night north of cleveland. authorities say he was outside his house firing an ar-15 for fun. his next-door neighbor wilsonses thba. of putting his down, austormed out of his yardo