CENTERVILLE, Texas (AP) — The search continued Friday for a Texas inmate serving a life sentence for homicide who escaped from a transport bus after stabbing the driving force.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, escaped custody Thursday after he overpowered the driving force, whose accidents weren’t thought of life-threatening, stated Jason Clark, chief of employees for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Lopez was convicted in 2006 of killing a person alongside the Texas-Mexico border.
Lopez escaped in Leon County, a rural space between Dallas and Houston. Classes within the close by Centerville Independent School District have been canceled Friday as a precaution.
The Leon County Sheriff’s Office stated a number of businesses have been concerned within the search Friday, together with plane from the Texas Department of Public Safety.
There have been 16 prisoners aboard the bus however nobody else escaped, Clark stated.
Leon County has roughly 16,000 residents and is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of the state’s prison headquarters.
Prison data present Lopez was most just lately being held at a lockup in Gatesville, greater than 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the place authorities have been looking.
Other prisoners in Texas have additionally escaped transport automobiles through the years. Among the latest was in 2019 when an MMA fighter suspected of killing two folks fled from a van and was lacking for 9 hours. Authorities stated he was finally discovered hiding in a trash can.
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