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A man has shot dead five neighbours including an eight-year-old boy after he was asked to stop shooting a semiautomatic rifle in his Texas yard because it was keeping a baby awake.

Police are still looking for the suspect, who used an AR-15-style rifle in the shooting late inside the neighbours' home on Friday, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers said.

Sheriffs deputies were joined by FBI agents as they continued searching for the suspect, Francisco Oropeza, 38, in a nearby wooded area 18 hours after the attack, Capers said.

"We are tracking him with dogs and men on horseback and drones in the air," Capers said. Law enforcement had found an abandoned phone and some discarded clothing in the search area.

He was quoted as saying by other news outlets that all the victims were shot in the head "almost execution-style".

Police said all five victims were from Honduras.

Officials from Capers' office received a call from Cleveland, north of Houston, about harassment about 11.30pm local time. When they reached the scene they found several victims who had been shot, Capers said.

There were a total of 10 people in the house when the attack took place, five of whom survived.

The victims were identified as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 8. They were all believed to be living in the house, but were not members of a single family, according to the FBI.

Enrique Reina, the foreign minister of Honduras, said the Honduran consulate was in contact with the authorities in Texas.

"We demand that the full weight of the law be applied against the person responsible for this crime," he wrote on Twitter.

The suspect stepped out of his house on Friday night and started shooting off rounds in his yard, which is when some of the victims stepped out to confront him, Capers said.

"The man walked over to the fence, said 'Hey, we're trying to keep the baby asleep in here'," Capers said.

Both parties then went back to their houses. Oropeza "topped off his magazine", and walked down his driveway onto the street then into the people's house and started shooting, Capers said.

Police had been called to Oropeza's house on a couple of previous occasions over complaints about noise he was making shooting his gun in his yard, Capers said.

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Gold Coast coach Justin Holbrook has praised his side's resilience after they avoided a second NRL collapse in as many weeks against Manly.

Six days after letting a 26-0 lead go against the Dolphins, players admitted they began thinking of that loss when Manly made a second-half charge on Saturday night.

The Titans watched a 16-2 halftime lead become 16-10 with 25 minutes to go, before they held off the Sea Eagles' next attacking set, won a penalty and claimed back the ascendancy to win 26-10.

It comes after players admitted their embarrassment after the Dolphins match, in what loomed as a potential season-defining loss last weekend.

"Everyone, at halftime, is asking how we are going to go under pressure," Titans coach Justin Holbrook said.

"The whole of rugby league is thinking it. We started well but didn't score. They were the first to score but got down on our line again.

"To the playing group's credit they handled it well.

"I said (after last week) we are doing so many things well, but we just have to make better choices under pressure. And we did that tonight."

Star second-rower David Fifita said the crucial point was that the Titans did not try to protect their lead, putting on an attacking kick for the next try.

"We knew it was in the back of our head," Fifita said.

"We learned from last week. It was embarrassing. But what a way to respond tonight. I am happy we got the win.

"We're just playing footy. We have been in that position before. It was calm out there, we weren't trying to hold onto the win. We were playing footy. It was good."

The news isn't all good for the Titans, after fullback AJ Brimson suffered a hamstring injury.

The blow is not in the same leg he injured last month, but the Titans fear he will spend some time on the sidelines with Jayden Campbell to again deputise at No.1.

That would likely end any small hopes Brimson had of playing in State of Origin I for Queensland.

"He's not great," Holbrook said.

"It's his other hamstring. That's not great for us. He has been playing great. We're lucky we had the luxury of having JC (Campbell) there, he slotted in nicely."

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Kieran Foran has heaped praise on Gold Coast's character and claims their ability to hold on against Manly is evidence they are a tougher NRL team in 2023.

Six days after letting a 26-0 lead go against the Dolphins, the Titans were perilously close to relinquishing another big lead on Saturday night against the Sea Eagles.

Up 16-2 at halftime, the Titans watched as Foran's old team got the margin down to six and had all the momentum off the back of a try and penalty goal.

But their final 25 minutes of the match was clinical, barely letting Manly launch another attacking set.

"There's no denying that when they scored after halftime, everyone in our side would have been having flashbacks to what went on the week before against Dolphins," Foran told AAP.

"That's what I was so proud of, we took some really valuable lessons from that loss to the Dolphins and the way we responded after they scored.

"We were able to halt it then and there after one try. We kept the ball down their end."

The Titans' resilience comes after their character was called into question in the past week, following on from a 2022 where they became the first side in history to give up two 20-point leads.

"It does talk to our character," Foran said of Saturday night's win.

"No-one was hurting more than us after last week's debacle. We had to sit in that all week.

"We were just counting down the days until we could get out there and rectify it.

"Saturday was a reminder we have done the work. We have turned a corner here. We had such a hard pre-season.

"We got ourself in the best shape, so we could grind in games for longer."

No-one was gutsier than Foran in his return to Brookvale, needing six stitches in his finger, a pain-killing needle in his toe and strapping on his knee.

He will have scans on his toe and knee on Monday but is hopeful of facing Parramatta in Magic Round and not joining AJ Brimson (hamstring) on the sideline.

"I had to get my finger stitched up. I sliced that open in the first half.

"I had to get my toe needled at halftime, because that didn't feel right. I don't know what I have done to it. I will get an X-ray tomorrow.

"My knee was heavily strapped, and with 10 minutes to go in the game that got caught.

"It was ironic that I was battling through the way I was at Brookie. I was thinking, geez, I've done this here a few times. Just in different colours."

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