Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was serving a life prison sentence for murdering a man near the Texas-Mexico border in 2006. He escaped from a prison bus on a journey to a medical appointment at another prison.
A prisoner was shot dead by police after escaping from a prison bus, stabbing its driver and killing a family of five, authorities in Texas have said.to another in Huntsville for a medical appointment when he freed himself from restraints.
He is believed to have cut through the expanded metal cage of the bus and crawled out from the bottom before stabbing the driver and taking the wheel himself.Lopez, who was a former member of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, is thought to have arrived at a family's cabin in Leon County on Thursday before killing the three children and two adults staying there.
When they arrived they found their bodies, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Jason Clark, said.
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