Escaped Prisoner Killed In Shootout With Cops -- After Allegedly Murdering 4 Children & Their Grandfather
03.06.2022 - 21:31
/ perezhilton.com
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An escaped prison inmate in Texas was killed by police in a shootout on Thursday night. Tragically, cops may have caught up with him too late. The man is suspected of killing a family of five in a gruesome home invasion murder just hours earlier.
We’ve been reporting on the case of Gonzalo Lopez, a 46-year-old who escaped custody last month after overpowering prison guards on a transport bus in rural east Texas. Lopez, who authorities say was involved with the Mexican Mafia, had been serving a life sentence for one charge of murder and another of attempted murder. He and other prisoners were being transported to medical appointments when he broke free of his restraints, overpowered a prison bus driver, and ran away near the city of Centerville back on May 12.
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In the weeks since, authorities with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice had been frantically searching but thus far had been unable to locate him. Lopez was added to Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List, and a $50,000 reward was issued for information leading to his capture. Jason Clark, the chief of staff for the TDCJ, asserted in a press conference that law enforcement would “not rest” until he was returned to custody.
The situation came to a head on Thursday night — and sadly, innocent lives were lost in the outcome.
It all started around 6:00 p.m. local time at a residence in Leon County, Texas — not far at all from where Lopez first escaped. Authorities were called to do a welfare check at a home there after a family member had not heard from an elderly relative since early that morning. Once at the home, which investigators
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