The Shooting Gallery: Authorities around Cleveland, Texas, are hunting a  man accused of shooting and killing five neighbors with his assault rifle Friday night after a father complained that he was keeping their baby awake firing his gun in his yard at 11 pm. Three others were wounded.

 An $80,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the capture of 39-year-old Francisco Oropeza. 

  James Smith, the special agent in charge of the FBI in Houston, told reporters, “We do not have any tips right now as to where he may be. Right now, we have zero leads.”

  Oropeza was last thought to be on the run in the Sam Houston National Forest in San Jacinto County. Investigators were tracking his cell phone, but they later found clothes and a phone in a rural forested area. The tracking dogs had then  lost the scent

  Investigators said that when Oropeza was asked to stop his late-night recreational shooting he replied,  “I’ll do what I want to in my front yard.’” A few minutes later he went next door with his gun. The father who asked Oropeza to stop shooting in his yard survived, but lost his wife and son.

  “I never thought that he would shoot,” Garcia told a reporter. “He went room to room, looking for people.”

  Police described the killings as “almost execution style.” An 8-year old was among the dead who ranged up to age 31. Two adults were found dead, shielding children. The victims were all reported to have come from Honduras.

The Money Page: Federal regulators already this morning have seized the failing First Republic Bank and sold all its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase in an effort to head off further turmoil in the banking business.

  San Francisco-based First Republic is the third midsize bank to fail in two months, and the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history. 

  First Republic started to go under after the  collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. First Republic had a worrisome number of deposits larger than the $250,000 insured limit and a big portfolio of low interest loans at a tie of high interest rates.  

The War Room: Russia launched another wave of missiles at Ukraine today, the second such attack in three days. Ukraine claims that its defenses shot down 15 of 18 Russian cruise missiles, including all the missiles headed for the capital of Kyiv.

  As Ukraine ramps up for a counter offensive, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, is threatening to pull his force out of the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut if they do not receive more ammunition from Russia. The Institute for the Study of War says Prigozhin told a Kremlin-friendly military blogger that his troops would soon need to “withdraw in an organized manner or stay and die” for lack of ammunition.

  With its troops chewed up in more than a year of war, Russia is reported to be recruiting and drafting as many as 400,000 men into the  military.

  Pope Francis said on yesterday that the Vatican is on a secret “mission” to stop the war would do “all that is humanly possible” to return children abducted from Ukraine to Russia.

The Obit Page: LeRoy Carhart, a Midwestern doctor who became a crusader for a woman’s right to abortion including late-term procedures, died on Friday at a hospice in Bellevue, Nebraska outside Omaha. He was 81.

  Notoriously stubborn, Carhart stayed the course even after an abortion opponent set fire to his farm,  killing his dog, his cat and 17 of his 21 horses.

  As a result, he once said, he committed his family clinic in Bellevue to abortions. “I decided I wasn’t going to just be a provider,” he continued. “I was going to be an activist.”

How The Ball Bounces: The Golden State warriors’ Stephen Curry scored 50 points to lead his team in game seven of the NBA’s first round playoffs to beat the Sacramento Kings 120-100. It was a game 7 record. 

Tragically Short: A year after 17-year-old junior Jack Reid killed himself in his dormitory room, the exclusive Lawrenceville School in New Jersey made a rare admission of fault, saying  that it had been aware that the student was being bullied, but that the school had fallen “tragically short” of its obligation to protect him.

  “The school acknowledges that bullying and unkind behavior, and actions taken or not taken by the school, likely contributed to Jack’s death,” Lawrenceville wrote in a statement posted yesterday morning on the school’s website.

  The statement was the product of a negotiated settlement with the boy’s parents, Elizabeth and Bill Reid. In it, Lawrenceville detailed its mishandling of Jack Reid’s troubles and said it would make corrections, including endowing a new dean’s position focused on mental health. 

The Spin Rack: The US has evacuated about 1,000 American citizens from Sudan as the country is torn by civil war. As many as 16,000 Americans were believed to be in Sudan at the outset of the shooting. — The number of murders solved in the US in 2020 dropped below 50 percent, a record low clearance rate. Some big cities, including Chicago, dipped into the 30 percent range. 

Below the Fold: President Biden took shots at Fox News and CNN Saturday night at the White House correspondents dinner.

  “Last year, your favorite Fox News reporters were able to attend” the dinner “because they were fully vaccinated and boosted,” Biden said. “This year, with that $787 million settlement, they’re here because they couldn’t say no to a free meal.”

  And he joked that after the Fox settlement with Dominion Voting systems, “CNN was like, ‘Wow! They actually have $787 million? Whoa!’”

  Praising the press with a jab at his own age, Biden said, “I believe in the First Amendment, not just because my friend Jimmy Madison wrote it.”