A convicted assassin on the run since breaking out of a jail bus’s cage final month killed a household of 5 at their rural trip cabin and was then fatally shot by police, a Texas jail system spokesman stated.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was killed round 10:30 p.m. Thursday in Jourdanton, Texas, about 35 miles south of San Antonio, stated Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Division of Legal Justice.
Round 6 p.m. that night, police who had obtained a name from a frightened relative discovered a Houston household — an grownup and 4 kids — useless at a cabin close to Centerville. They had been thought to have been slain within the afternoon, shortly after they arrived.
Police trying to find their lacking pickup truck noticed it a number of hours later about 220 miles from Centerville. They disabled it with spike strips, and Lopez was killed in an trade of gunfire, Clark stated.
Lopez, 46, had been the topic of an intense search since his Could 12 escape from a jail bus close to Centerville, in a rural space between Dallas and Houston.
He was being transported in a caged space of the bus for a medical appointment when he managed to free himself from his restraints, crawl out of the cage and stab the motive force. The 2 officers left the bus, and Lopez began to drive away; after they shot out a tire, he fled on foot into the woods.
Lopez was serving a life jail sentence for a 2006 conviction of murdering a person alongside the Texas-Mexico border. He was a former member of the Mexican Mafia jail gang.