Grim news out of Texas this morning, with the only bright point being that this contemptible fellow will never do anything like this again:
A convicted murderer who escaped from a Texas prison transport bus last month was shot dead by cops on Thursday night after he allegedly murdered five family members — including four children — inside their home, authorities said.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, who had been on the run since May 12, was killed in a shootout in a residential neighborhood in Jourdanton, Texas, at about 10:30 p.m., the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
Shortly before Lopez's death, he had been named the prime suspect in the slaying of one adult and four children in Centerville, about 250 miles away from the scene of his fatal shootout, authorities said.
It's very fortunate that they got him even when they did—this killer was clearly both deadly and resourceful:
Lopez had evaded capture since he managed to slip out of his restraints on the inmate-filled bus and stab the driver before running into the woods in Leon County — a rural area between Dallas and Houston that has a population of just 16,000 people
The inmate, who was serving a life sentence for a 2006 murder, was being transported to Texas' prison headquarters in Huntsville — about 50 miles north of Leon County — for a medical appointment when he made his escape, officials said.
Thank God for police.
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