On the run for 21 days, it seems Gonzalo Lopez had made up his mind not to be taken into custody again. After dying in a blaze of bullets, his run to freedom was ended. Here's how it all went down.
Gonzalo Lopez manhunt: How the statewide search for escaped convict ended in dramatic shootout
The victims, four children and their grandfather, were killed near the town of Centerville just outside of Houston. "I’ve been working homicide survivors now for 35 years. And just when you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t," said Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers of Houston. "Those kids were bright shining stars," he said. "We coached them through baseball, and these next few days are going to be tough on all of us."
"It’s unclear whether Lopez was already there or was casing the structure and just waiting for someone to come in," said Jason Clark with the Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice.It's been three weeks since Gonzalo Lopez, 46, escaped from custody and the manhunt continues to find him, especially after bodies were found in a home near where he escaped."He's serving a life sentence already, so he didn’t want to go back to prison, obviously," Soward said.
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