Texas police tracked down a fugitive suspected of killing a family of five while on the run, ending a three-week manhunt after the prisoner bizarrely escaped.
Gonzalo Lopez was sentenced to life in prison in 2006 for brutal murder with a pickaxe and kidnapping, and on May 12 he escaped from a bus with prisoners.
For the past three weeks, police have been unable to find the 46-year-old fugitive despite a massive manhunt considered the most important in modern Texas history.
The circumstances of Lopez’s escape reflected his ability: on that day, he was to be transferred from his prison in Gatesville to another prison in Texas, specifically in Huntsville, for a medical examination, and the distance between the two prisons is about 260 kilometers, which the prisoner had to travel in a special bus, which is heavily guarded by armed policemen.
