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‘No reason to believe he has left the area.’ Search for escaped Texas inmate continues
It has been two days since Gonzalo Lopez stabbed a guard within the hand and ran from a jail bus outdoors of Centerville. Authorities assume he should still be close by.
The escaped convict who was capable of stab a jail guard within the hand and run from a crashed jail bus in Leon County on Thursday should still be within the space, authorities stated Saturday.
The video above is from Friday evening’s briefing on efforts to search out Lopez.
A whole bunch of personnel have been on the lookout for Gonzalo Lopez, 46, a convicted assassin with a violent prison historical past and alleged ties to drug cartels.
“We’ve no purpose to consider he has left the realm, there is no such thing as a proof to help that, at the moment,” Leon County Sheriff’s Workplace representatives stated Saturday in a social media put up.
A state freeway the place the Texas Division of Legal Justice bush crashed on Thursday remained closed over the weekend, and authorities continued to induce individuals to avoid the realm close to Centerville, which is about 115 miles north of Houston.
Lopez is serving back-to-back life sentences for taking pictures at a Webb County, Texas sheriff’s deputy in 2004 and killing a person with a pickax in Hidalgo County after holding him ransom on a drug debt.
The search space spans greater than 100 sq. miles of east Texas countryside between Centerville, the city of Marquez to the west, and Buffalo to the north.
No sightings of escaped inmate in Leon Co. Saturday, authorities not giving up
Lopez was being transported Thursday from the Alfred Hughes Unit outdoors of Gatesville in central Texas to a jail medical facility in Huntsville when he was capable of get free and stab the bus driver within the hand and chest. He drove off within the bus however did not get far thanks to a different guard who shot out its again tires with a shotgun.
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It isn’t the primary time Lopez has managed to cover from legislation enforcement for an prolonged time period. In 2004, he was capable of run away from a police chase in South Texas and stayed hidden with the assistance of a cartel affiliate, he instructed investigators on the time.
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