By Josh Campbell, Ed Lavandera and Elizabeth Wolfe|CNN

The guy implicated of fatally shooting five individuals, including a mother and her 9-year-old boy, in a Texas house has been collared after a dayslong manhunt, 2 law enforcement sources told CNN.

The arrest was made in the town of Cut and Shoot, Texas, according to a federal law enforcement source. Cut and Shoot is approximately 17 miles west of Cleveland, Texas, where the killings took place.

Francisco Oropesa, 38, is accused of performing the massacre Friday night after neighbors asked him to stop firing his rifle so near their house, authorities have stated. Detectives had initially started tracking Oropesa using his cellular phone but said that trail went cold Saturday evening and they had no information about his location ever since.

Authorities for days advised the public to come forward with any info and devoted substantial resources to locating the suspect, consisting of more than 250 police officers and a $80,000 in rewards for tips resulting in his arrest. Spanish-language billboards are promoting the reward money, authorities said, and the US government is interacting the reward to news outlets across Mexico in case Oropesa is there, the police source told CNN on Monday.

Though Oropesa's current immigration status is unknown, he had actually entered the United States unlawfully and been deported by migration authorities at least 4 times since 2009, said an ICE source who recognized him as Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres. An immigration judge first eliminated him in March 2009 before he was deported once again in September 2009, January 2012, and July 2016, the source said.

It is not known the length of time Oropesa has remained in the United States because his last deportation, according to the source.

The victims - - all Honduran nationals - have been recognized as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25, and her child Daniel Enrique Laso-Guzman, 9; Diana Velázquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31, and José Jonathan Cásarez, 18.

How the attack unfolded

Fifteen people - - consisting of godparents and buddies who had come to help prepare for a church occasion - - had actually gathered Friday in the house in Cleveland, a city of about 8,000 northeast of Houston, said Wilson Garcia, whose partner and son were killed.

About 10 to 20 minutes before the massacre, Garcia and 2 others had actually strolled over to Oropesa's lawn to ask him to stop shooting so close to their house due to the fact that Garcia's child was sleeping, he informed CNN. They 'd asked Oropesa to shoot on the other side of his residential or commercial property, the father said.

The suspect refused, and Garcia said he would call authorities.

" We walked inside and my spouse was speaking to the cops, and we called 5 times because he was being more threatening," Garcia recalled.

" We saw him, he was leaving his residential or commercial property and cocked his weapon," the daddy stated. "I told my other half to enter since he cocked his gun and he may come threaten us. So my wife said, ‘‘ You go within, I do not think he will fire at me because I'm a female, I'll remain here at the door.'".

Right after, the gunman charged into Garcia's home, initially shooting his better half, Sonia Argentina Guzman, in the doorway prior to eliminating 3 other grownups and Garcia's kid, Daniel Enrique Laso-Guzman, the mourning dad stated.

" One of the people who passed away saw when my better half fell to the ground," Garcia told CNN.

" She told me to throw myself out the window due to the fact that my kids were currently without a mother. So one of us had to stay alive to take care of them. She was the individual who assisted me leap out the window.".

The lady who helped Garcia flee did not make it through, he said.

" Two people who passed away were safeguarding my 2 1/2- year-old daughter and my 1-month-old boy," Garcia said, sobbing. "They protected him with a lot of clothing so the killer wouldn't kill him, too. So simply imagine what we're feeling now. It was dreadful.".

When authorities arrived, they discovered the victims had actually been shot "almost execution design" at close quarters above the neck, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers informed local media.

Authorities got to the scene as quick as they could, Capers stated. However his small force covers a big county, he said, and the house is about 15 minutes outdoors town.

‘ ‘ I feel a part of me has actually chosen her'

As the victim's households mourn, Argentina Guzman's liked ones struggled to put their sorrow into words.

The pain felt by her brother, German Guzman, is "mysterious," he informed CNN, including, "It's tough to know people who are really near to you are gone, extremely challenging.".

" I feel a part of me has actually chosen her. I feel a part of my heart is broken," stated her mom, Francia Guzman.

" With God's authorization, she'll return in a coffin so I can bid farewell although she'll never respond, although she can no longer state anything to me," the mother said.

Honduran authorities are preparing to repatriate the victims' remains, they've stated.

" The Government of Honduras deeply regrets the loss of these valuable lives and accompanies all their liked ones in their discomfort. We require that the pertinent authorities apprehend the perpetrator of this awful occasion and use the full weight of the law," the Honduran Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

" The only thing I desire is for them to be returned so they can rest where they were born, so they can rest forever and they be in a place where I can at least take them a flower," Francia Guzman said.