The Shooting Gallery: After a hunt involving as many as 250 law enforcement officers, the man accused of killing five of his neighbors, including a nine-year-old boy, was arrested last night hiding in a home about 11 miles from the site of the Friday night massacre. Francisco Orpoesa, 38, was found underneath a pile of laundry in Cut and Shoot, Texas — yeah, that’s really the name.

  The house belonged to a relative.

  The shooting occurred after Orpoesa was asked to stop firing his rifle in his yard because he was keeping a baby awake. Survivors say he then came next door with an assault rifle and killed the five people, execution style.

Until Death: One of the saddest stories in recent days is the wedding night death of a bride in South Carolina at the hands of a suspected drunk driver.

   Samantha Hutchinson, 34, and her new husband, Aric Hutchinson were leaving their wedding reception in a golf cart Friday night in Folly Beach when their vehicle was hit by a car going 65 in a 25 zone. The cart flew 100 feet, killing Samantha and leaving Aric with a brain injury.

  The driver, Jamie Lee Komoroski, 25, was described as smelling of alcohol and refused a sobriety test. She’s being held without bail on three felony DUIs and one count of reckless homicide. 

  Wedding guests said one of the last things they heard Samantha say was, “I wish this night could last forever.”

Ethics and Powers: It’s no surprise that Senate Democrats and Republicans differed on the reason for a hearing on Supreme Court ethics. Judiciary committee Chairman Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said at the  opening yesterday that “It is critical to our democracy that the American people have confidence that judges cannot be bought or influenced, and that they are serving the public interest — not their own personal interest.”

  The hearing was sparked by revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of  luxury travel from a billionaire, who also bought the house in which Thomas’s mother lives.

  South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham  countered, “We can talk about ethics, and that’s great, but we’re also going to talk about today the concentrated effort by the left to delegitimize this court, and to cherry-pick examples to make a point.” 

  The Supreme Court seems to have little more than a word of mouth code of ethics.  Chief Justice John Roberts, citing concerns about “separation of powers and judicial independence,” declined to appear and answer questions.

Ask E. Jean: A woman named Jessica Leeds testified in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit against Donald Trump that back in the 1970s Trump sexually assaulted her on a flight to New York. 

  “I was invited up to the first-class cabin. I was the only woman there. Donald Trump introduced himself,” she said, and that when she sat next to him Trump “grabbed me and groped me. It was like he had forty zillion hands. He put his hand up my skirt.”

  Leeds was presented to demonstrate that sexual assault is perfectly within Trump’s character. Leeds said she “wiggled out and stormed back to coach.” 

  Also yesterday, Lisa Birnbach, the author of “The Official Preppy Handbook,” testified that Carroll told her about her Trump attack on the telephone “five to seven minutes” after the incident.

  “And E. Jean said to me many times, ‘He pulled down my tights, he pulled down my tights.’ Almost like she couldn’t believe it had just happened to her,” Birnbach said. That concurs with Carroll’s courtroom description of the attack.

  Birnbach said, “As soon as she said that, even though I knew my children didn’t know the word, I ducked out of the room and I whispered ‘E. Jean, he raped you, you should go to the police.'” 

  Carroll never did go to the cops and didn’t mention the incident publicly until she published her book in 2019.

Police Beat: Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao has been convicted of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter for his role in the 2020 killing of George Floyd’s. 

  Thao was accused of failure to hold back fellow officer Derek Chauvin, whose knee-hold killed Floyd. Video footage showed Thao holding back concerned bystanders, including an off-duty firefighter who urged officers to check Floyd’s pulse. At one point Thao told the bystanders, “This is why you don’t do drugs, kids.” 

The Spin Rack: Bracing for a post-pandemic migration surge, the Biden administration announced it will deploy 1,500 additional troops to the southern border. — The seven bodies found on a rural Oklahoma farm have been identified as a registered sex offender, his wife, and three children … all of whom were reported to be kept “under lock and key,” as well as two teenage girls who were visiting. — Late night television shows, including “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” and others have all gone into re-runs because of the Writers Guild strike. All those shows have armies of timely joke writers. — Washington State’s 72-year-old Gov. Jay Inslee says he will not run for a fourth term in 2024, ending a nearly 30-year career in elected office. He’s one of the leading “climate hawks” in politics, pressing for solutions to pollution and climate change.

Below the Fold: The NY Times published an internal e-mail written by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that became one of the reasons he was fired. Describing a video he watched Carlson said, “A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him” and that “Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him.” 

  Carlson went on to say he regretted that feeling, and that “I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it.” 

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