Four days after the gun attack with five dead in Texas, the alleged perpetrator has been caught. This was announced by law enforcement agencies on Tuesday evening. Accordingly, the man was hiding in a closet under laundry at the time of the arrest. According to the FBI, the decisive clue to the man's whereabouts came in the late afternoon via the security agency's tip number. Three quarters of an hour later, he was caught in Montgomery County, about 20 minutes from the crime scene. He was to be charged with five counts of murder on Wednesday.

Sofia Dreisbach

Political correspondent for North America, based in Washington.

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The thirty-eight-year-old is suspected of shooting five people in Cleveland, Texas, on Friday. Neighbors had asked him in the evening to stop shooting on his own property because of the volume out of consideration for a sleeping baby. They didn't think it was problematic because the contact was actually good, a witness said later. Subsequently, however, the drunken man went to the neighboring house and killed five out of 15 people who were there with an assault rifle. Among the dead was an eight-year-old child who succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Witnesses of the attack criticize the slow response time of the police on the evening of the crime. The police had finally been alerted because of the disturbance of the peace caused by the shooting.

According to the security authorities on Wednesday, there were other arrests in connection with the arrest of the alleged perpetrator; However, details are not known. More than 250 officials were involved in the search for the Mexican-born man. A reward of a total of 80,000 dollars had been offered for the decisive clue. According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the alleged perpetrator had been deported four times from the United States and was illegally in Texas, as were the five victims.

Abbott was heavily criticized for his communications after the gun attack. On Twitter, the Republican governor had written on Monday that he had offered a reward for information about the criminal "who killed five illegal immigrants". The civil rights organization "League of United Latin American Citizens" warned that this tragedy was not about the legal status of the victims. Rather, the problem is another gun attack with a "weapon of war."