We have zero leads.
>> This morning the search for a man accused of killing five of his neighbors,
including a nine year old child, is growing more urgent by the minute.
>> Is there any danger to the community right now?
>> There's always a danger when you've got a guy that's just shot five people in
the head, execution style.
>> Five people were shot and killed by their neighbor in Cleveland, Texas,
and the shooter, who used an AR 15 style rifle, is still out on the loose,
authorities are still looking for him.
He is a Mexican national, which leads some to believe that he has fled the country,
although there is no confirmation of that at this moment.
Now some more information about the massacre and the tragic events that
took place, the shooting happened after the neighbors asked the suspect,
a 38 year old man by the name of Francisco Oropesa,
to stop shooting his gun in the yard, okay?
So here are some more details about how it all started and
what transpired afterwards.
>> The shooting happened Friday night after the father and husband of two of
the victims, Wilson Garcia, says that he along with two other men,
approached Francisco Oropesa and asked him to stop shooting his weapon so
close to their property because their baby was sleeping.
Garcia says they called 911 five times to report Oropesa shooting his gun.
The suspect then allegedly approached the house with his rifle about 10 to 20
minutes after the encounter.
From there, the home turned into a scene of carnage that left four adults and
Garcia's nine year old son Daniel, all shot dead.
>> So, I wanna name the victims here the people who died as
a result of this heinous shooting, Sonia Argentina Guzman,
25 years old, Diana Velazquez Alvarado,
21 years old, Julisa Molina Rivera, 31 years old,
Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18 years old.
And then, of course, the youngest victim, Daniel Enrique Lasa Guzman, 9 years old.
Some outlets reported that the youngest victim was eight, but
the father of the victim clarified that he actually turned nine in January.
One of the most horrific details of the story involved three minors who were
located uninjured, but they were covered in blood.
They were transported to a local hospital.
Two of the female victims who were found dead in the bedroom
were actually laying on top of two of the surviving children,
indicating that they acted as human shields to protect the kids.
I have more details on the story, including the Texas governor's
disgusting tweet about this situation before we get to that, Cenk.
>> So there's a couple of issues here, we're gonnna get to Republicans trying
to take advantage of this mass shooting, which is disgusting.
But first, on the guns, in the old days,
this would have led to a fight, okay?
The woman on the porch said to her husband, it's okay, go inside,
I'm a woman, he's not going to shoot.
And in the old days, this guy, being the monster that he is, would have come and
punched that woman in the face, and it would have been a horrific fight, etc, but
five people would still be alive today.
But now every deranged person has a weapon.
Every drunk person has a weapon.
Every person on drugs, I have no idea if he was on drugs, but
it's kind of rash action sometimes human beings take on drugs, right?
They all have weapons, so they're not gonna come over and
do something stupid like punch you.
They're gonna come over and murder you.
And so good luck, America.
There's no one in government who's ever gonna do anything about it.
In fact, that's why Abbott was trying to distract you with the immigration issue
instead of the gun violence issue.
But there's an unhinged neighbor next to you who probably has a weapon.
And so now you can't even communicate with anyone, make the most reasonable request
of all time, hey, can you please stop shooting in the front yard,
because we have a baby that can't sleep, let alone the fact that you're shooting in
the front yard, no doubt get you murdered today in America.
This place is absolutely nuts.
And our leaders are even more crazy because they're never gonna do anything
about it.
It's amazing.
>> So the sheriff, Greg Capers has said that he
believes that the shooter was likely intoxicated
at the time that he committed this shooting.
Just a few more details I wanna get to.
As I mentioned earlier, the shooter is still at large, so
the authorities are looking for him.
There are 200 law enforcement officers in Texas still searching for him.
They're using canines.
They're using drones.
And so far, their efforts have failed.
We've got more on that.
Let's take a look.
>> Late Saturday night, investigators were saying that they had found the suspect's
clothing and a cell phone that had been discarded.
They also said they believe that the suspect has communicated with friends
a couple of times, whether or not that has continued, we don't know at this point.
But they are saying this morning and
yesterday afternoon that the trail has gone cold.
They can't really say if they believe he's still in the area or
perhaps somewhere else in the state.
>> Now, the father of the victims spoke to the press and
talked about the number of times he called the authorities.
There isn't enough clarity to give you details on that yet, but
he says that he called repeatedly.
And I want to know, how long did it take for the authorities to show up?
What was their response?
How many times did they get that call for help?
There's just a lot of detail that's missing in the reporting right now,
and I'm sure we'll fill you guys in as we learn more.
Go ahead, Cenk.
>> So real quick to fill you in on that.
The father says they called five times, but they are 15 minutes outside of town,
and it's only a town of 8000 people.
So it's a small town.
So that's why it's really open.
We don't know yet what really happened because it's possible that they got those
five calls back to back, and it took them 14 minutes to get out there.
It's also possible that they didn't hurry out there,
maybe because of the immigration situation of these folks.
But that's not fair to the cops because we really, really don't know.
And the cops are really pissed about this, and they're not taking it lightly at all.
And I think they're like 200 person manhunt right now.
>> Right, exactly,
200 law enforcement officers in Texas are looking for this guy.
Now, more on the shooter.
So he has been deported, as I mentioned, he's a Mexican national.
He has been deported at least four times by ICE since 2009.
And I'm guessing that is the detail of the story that the right is kind of
exploiting for their own political purposes.
Before we get to that, though,
I do wanna read Texas governor Greg Abbott's statement about this on Twitter,
where he wrote, I've announced a $50,000 reward for
information on the criminal who killed 5 illegal immigrants Friday.
Also directed OperationLoneStar to be on the lookout.
Anyway, I read the relevant part of that tweet, which is for some reason,
the governor of Texas felt the need to label the victims of this horrendous,
horrific shooting as illegal immigrants.
There's evidence, contrary to what he's saying there, at least one of the victims
is not an illegal immigrant or here in undocumented status, I should say.
Why is that relevant?
I mean, it's just such a strange thing for
him to include in the context of releasing a statement about this story and
about this tragic event, and it's about the victims too.
It's not about the perpetrator here.
>> Yeah, so two things about that, and we have breaking news on it right now,
but first, look, if he says that about the guy who did the shootings,
I get it, that's one of the issues here.
He's deported four times.
He comes back in a fifth time and then does this horrific murder, right?
And that is super frustrating to everybody.
But note, by the way,
apparently there aren't open borders because he was deported four times.
It's not like they're like, just stay, take a seat.
It's solely legal.
No, it's illegal, they kicked him out of the country four different times.
Sometimes you have a repeat offender and there's nothing you could do about it, and
it drives the cops crazy.
In this case, the border agents, etc, right?
But why are you talking about the immigration status of the victims?
The victims?
So there's only a couple of explanations here.
One is, they just think that their base is so
vicious that they're gonna look at that and go, you know what?
They shouldn't have been here anyway.
It's not that big a deal.
They were illegal immigrants.
Man, if that's what they intended, they're even more immoral than I imagined.
Jesus, but when I saw it in the morning, I thought, no, somebody overstepped here.
Look, the governors don't write this stuff, right?
The governor does send it, so he's responsible.
But somebody was probably thinking, like, we want to distract from the gun issue,
we all hate undocumented immigrants, meaning all the Republicans do.
So we'll just direct it in that way.
But this morning I said, this is a bridge too far.
Even Republican voters are gonna say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, okay,
we don't like undocumented, maybe half of them but some portion of Republican voters
are gonna go, no, don't blame these victims, are you nuts, right?
So the breaking news is Greg Abbott just released a statement walking it back,
and that's because it was a bridge too far even for Republican voters.
So let me read that to you, here he says, or the statement says,
following the horrific shooting on Friday night,
federal officials provide the State of Texas information on the criminal and
the victims, including that they were in the country illegally.
We've since learned that at least one of the victims
may have been in the United States legally.
We regret if the information was incorrect and
detracted from the important goal of finding and arresting the criminal.
So they realize they screwed up.
>> Yeah, so it does turn out that one of the victims is
a permanent US resident, right?
So they're correcting that because I'm sure all the backlash
that the governor has received keeps mentioning that point.
And then, of course, whether it's members of the press or other people on Twitter,
activists, whatever, they're debating Abbott, right?
Based on that framing, like, yeah, well,
at least one of them was actually here legally.
Doesn't matter.
These are humans.
These are human beings, okay?
Two of the women who were shot to death with an AR 15 style rifle
were found with their bodies on top of the surviving children.
They shielded the children with their own bodies.
They died saving those kids.
I don't care what their freaking immigration status is, period.
>> 100%.
What kind of a monster knows their immigration status?
Are you insane?
And those women, one of them,
by the way, pushed out the father from a window, according to a father, saying,
you got to stay alive because the mother is dead and there's two young kids.
There's a two and a half year old and a kid that was a couple of months old.
>> So Wilson Garcia, who is the father of the murdered nine year old boy,
spoke to reporters.
I actually wanna go to his video, if you don't mind, Cenk.
Let's take a look.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> Now, telling NBC News his son died because he was trying to protect his mom.
Saying that the child saw her fall and ran toward her.
>> Garcia says one of the women who was killed urged him to flee out of the window
so his two other children would not lose both of their parents that night.
>> [FOREIGN].
>> That was my nine year old son and my wife too, and
two people who died protecting my two and a half year old daughter.
My one and a half month old son was protected with a lot of clothes so
the killer wouldn't kill him, too.
>> Yeah, but what was their documented status?
I mean, I can't imagine anyone's brain working that way.
But those people exist, right?
Whether it was Greg Abbott himself or someone in his staff who overstepped and
put that tweet out.
I can't believe that that was top of mind for
them as they hear the details of this heinous crime, this horrible shooting.
>> Yeah, and one more thing for me on this, they're so
desperate to protect gun manufacturers that they'll do anything,
I think that was the main genesis of that tweet.
They'll do anything to distract you.
It was a trans person this time, it must not be the guns.
Even though 99% of the time it's not a trans person, it must be the trans person.
It's undocumented immigrants that were the victims.
It must not be the guns.
Are you insane?
But people fall for it.
Like I said, this one was way too far.
They must have gotten blowback not from Democrats who they couldn't care less
about or independence, but from their own base for them to go, okay,
I guess you guys aren't as vicious as Republican leaders are.
Because Republican leaders would do anything to cover up their corruption and
the bribery and the bribes that they get from the NRA and gun manufacturers.
Guys, we have so many guns in this country.
These mass shootings are never,
ever going to stop unless we just vote out all the bums.
And in this case, it's a rare, rare case where it's just Republicans.
Most of the time, Republicans and
Democrats work together on corporate issues to screw us all, but
on gun issues and it used to be that way too, now it's only Republicans.
And they say,
we care a lot more about the cash from the NRA than we do about your kids.
Don't care about them at all.
You know how many mass shootings there have already been in four months
this year?
184.
>> I mean, you have Kristi Noem, Governor Kristi Noem,
going to the annual NRA conference to brag about arming her
two year old granddaughter, I think, or was it daughter?
Yeah, granddaughter with two weapons.
Two year old, I don't know-.
>> And I think one of them was a shotgun.
>> Yeah.
>> Because, look, Republican leaders have become totally and utterly deranged.
I mean, what kind of a literal psychotic person says,
I gave my two year old granddaughter a shotgun or
whatever freaking gun that she was bragging about her two year old having?
No, literally, you should be locked up in mental asylum.
Totally, with one of those straitjackets.
Instead, she's a governor of one of our states.
You have other lunatics like Lauren Boebert posing with guns and
their Christmas albums.
There's tons of Republican congressmen doing that, and they think it's so cool.
Look, these are the weapons used to murder your children.
Let's take a Christmas picture.
By the way, I'll give my kids tiny little kids the same assault weapons in
the Christmas picture.
No, if you believe that that is safe, you are psychotic.
It is not a political debate.
Go get mental health counseling.
You desperately need it.