CLEVELAND, Texas — A day after the person suspected of killing 5 of his neighbors in a Texas capturing was arrested, the sheriff says his spouse has additionally been taken into custody.

Montgomery County Sheriff Rand Henderson says 53-year-old Divimara Lamar Nava, spouse of suspect Francisco Oropeza, was in custody in reference to the Friday night time capturing.

A four-day manhunt for Oropeza ended Tuesday when authorities, appearing on a tip, mentioned they discovered the suspect hiding beneath a pile of laundry within the closet of a home.

Oropeza was captured with out incident close to the group of Conroe, north of Houston and about 20 miles from his house within the rural city of Cleveland.

That’s the place authorities say he went subsequent door and shot his neighbors with an AR-style rifle shortly earlier than midnight Friday.

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