BREAKING: Texas shooting leaves five dead as manhunt is underway for Mexican suspect

Five people, including an eight-year-old were shot and killed early Saturday in San Jacinto County, Texas, police have reported.

It appeared to begin when the San Jacinto County Sheriff's Office was called to the scene for "harassment" around midnight. When they arrived, they discovered five people shot at a location in the Trail End Subdivision, west of Cleveland. Four were already dead and one victim died at a local hospital.

In addition, three others were taken to the hospital "covered in blood," but it was not known whether they were injured or if the blood belonged to the other victims.

Sheriff Greg Capers told Bluebonnet News that the victims were from Honduras, but it is not yet clear if they were illegal migrants. There were ten people who were living in the house.

Four of the dead were adults, one male and three females and one victim was only eight-years-old. The three others who were taken to the hospital are children.

"When we got here, the two females in the bedroom were actually laying over the top of the younger children, two of the three younger children" that survived, Capers said. Evidently, they were attempting to protect their young and appeared to have successfully done so.

Police have identified a suspect in the shooting and are actively looking for the scumbag.

The suspected coward is a "Mexican male from Mexico," where all Mexican males originally come from obviously. The sheriff's office has a copy of his consular identification card.

Capers said the suspect has been known to shoot a firearm in the front yard of the residence. Police found shell casings there.

The cowardly scumbag is not believed to be in the area and is likely out of the county. 

There is an ongoing investigation.

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