A convicted assassin who escaped from a transport bus final week received out of his restraints and a caged space earlier than stabbing the motive force, authorities stated. Gonzalo Lopez, 46, continues to be on the run.
Lopez, who was serving a life sentence, was being transported to a medical appointment on Could 12 in a caged space of the bus designated for high-risk inmates, the Texas Division of Felony Justice stated in an announcement that supplied new particulars on the escape. The company additionally launched new surveillance photographs of Lopez taken on the morning of the escape.
As Lopez was being transported, he someway freed himself from his hand and leg restraints, reduce by the expanded metallic of the cage and crawled out the underside, the division stated. He then attacked the motive force, who stopped the bus and received into an altercation with Lopez, the division stated. They each ultimately received off the bus.
In some unspecified time in the future the motive force was stabbed and wounded within the hand and chest, stated Jason Clark, chief of workers for the Texas Division of Felony Justice. He stated the motive force's wounds weren't life threatening.
A second officer on the rear of the bus then exited and approached Lopez, who received again on the bus and began driving down the highway, the division stated.
The officers fired at Lopez and disabled the bus by taking pictures the rear tire, the division stated. The bus then traveled a brief distance earlier than leaving the roadway, the place Lopez received out and bumped into the woods, in keeping with the division.
Melanie Tieperman was along with her son after they stumbled on the bus crash and noticed Lopez escaping, KHOU-TV reported. A video given to KAGS NEWS by Tieperman seems to point out Lopez working into the woods.
Sixteen prisoners have been aboard the bus, however nobody else escaped, the division stated.
Lopez, who was convicted in 2006 of killing a person alongside the Texas-Mexico border, escaped in Leon County, a rural space between Dallas and Houston, authorities stated. A number of legislation enforcement companies are concerned within the search, which has included plane and groups horseback and canine groups.
Leon County has roughly 16,000 residents. and is about 50 miles north of the state's jail headquarters in Huntsville.
Lopez was being transported from a lockup in Gatesville, greater than 100 miles west of the world the place he escaped, to at least one in Huntsville, about 50 miles south of that space.
The reward for data resulting in Lopez's seize has elevated to $50,000.