The review came after Gonzalo Lopez escaped on May 12 and eventually killed five people.
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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will resume inmate transportation on Monday following a brief pause after a convicted murderer escaped from a prison bus last month and killed five people.earlier this week, TDCJ officials say they conducted “a comprehensive review of its transportation procedures” to investigate how the murderer escaped.
“The public’s safety is the first duty and highest obligation for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice,” said TDCJ executive director Bryan Collier. The review was sparked after Gonzalo Lopez, 46, who was serving two life sentences, escaped on May 12. He was being taken from the Alfred Hughes Unit near Gatesville to a medical appointment in Huntsville when he was somehow able to remove his handcuffs, cut through a metal door and attack the bus driver, causing the vehicle to stop. Lopez fled into a wooded area and was on the lam for three weeks.
Authorities say Lopez killed one man and his four grandchildren in Leon County while on the loose. Lopez was apprehended and shot by law enforcement on June 2 in Jourdanton, over 200 miles from where Lopez was originally housed in Gatesville, and 250 miles from where the victims died.
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