convicted murderer on in run because the the escape prison bus after being stabbed driver last month was shot dead law enforcement late Thursday night after he killed family of five and stole them truck from a rural weekend cabin, Texas prison system the spokesman said.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was killed at around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday. in Jordanton, Texas about 35 miles south of San Antonio, said Jason Clarke, spokesman for Department of Texas of Criminal justice.
“Law enforcement in Atascos County is located stolen vehicle, disabled it with spike strips and shooting followed,” Clarke said. in statement. None of the officers were hurt, he said.
Lopez was killed in exchange of shooting about 220 miles southwest of Centerville, Texas, where Clark says Lopez killed the Houstonian. family of five in their cabin and stolen their pickup truck.
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family seen alive before in day, It is reported by CBS Dallas..
Lopez was thought to be hiding in the woods in neighborhood of cockpit when the officers received call from someone concerned Clark said he hadn’t heard from the elderly relative.
“He broke into the residence and committed these murders,” official told CBS Dallas.
The officers went to the family hut along Texas Highway 7 west of Centerville around 18:00 Thursday and found body of one adult and four minors, three of them children. Identities withheld, but their white pickup truck gone, Clarke said.
It was believed that Lopez was driving. truck from the search area he said.
Lopez was former member of mexican mafia prison gangs and had ties to South Texas, he said.
family They were believed to have arrived Thursday morning at their cabin, Clarke said. The five are believed to have been killed on Thursday afternoon and had nothing to do with Lopez, he said.
Lopez, 46, was the victim of intensive search since escape from prison Bus May 12th.
He was transported in in a cage area of bus from a prison in gatesville, more than 100 miles west of in place where did he run to one in Huntsville for medical appointment when he escaped in Leon County, rural area between Dallas and Houston, Texas Department of – said the criminal justice.
Centerville is the county seat. of Leon County, with approximately 16,000 residents and about 50 miles from north of Huntsville State prison headquarters.
Department once said to Lopez freed from the shackles of hands and feetcut through expanded metal of in cage and climbed from the bottom. Then he attacked driver, who stopped the bus and got into a quarrel with Lopez, and they both ended up getting off bus.
BUT second officer in the rear of then the bus got off and approached Lopez, who there is back on the bus started moving down road, the department said.
The officers opened fire on Lopez and disabled the bus shot through the rear wheel, the department said. Then the bus drove a short distance before leaving the roadway where Lopez got out and ran into the forest.
At some point during the escape, Lopez stabbed the driver, whose wounds were not life-threatening, the department said.
Lopez served life prison sentence for conviction 2006 of murder of a man on the border of Texas and Mexico.
The United States Marshals Service issued photos shows Lopez’s tattoos last week, notes CBS Dallas, and announced what’s the combined reward of up offered up to $50,000 for information leading to his capture.
“He’s cunning” Department of Texas of This was stated by the representative of criminal justice Robert Hurst. “He’s done it before down in South Texas in Webb County – he hid out for almost nine days.
