A convicted murderer who escaped from a transport bus for high-risk inmates in Texas on May 12 was shot dead by law enforcement officials on Thursday, authorities said.
“Suspect Gonzalo Lopez is captured [and] deceased,” the Leon County Sheriff’s Office said in its latest update.
Lopez, 46, is believed to be connected to the murder of a Houston family of four minors and one adult. The fugitive stole the family’s truck, a 1999 white Chevrolet Silverado, from a rural weekend cabin after he allegedly killed the family, police said.
Jason Clark, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), said authorities in Atascosa County located the missing truck and trailed it with spike strips….