Government have been looking out Friday for a Texas inmate serving a lifestyles sentence for homicide who escaped from a shipping bus after stabbing the driving force.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, escaped custody Thursday after he overpowered the driving force, whose accidents weren’t regarded as life-threatening, stated Jason Clark, leader of group of workers for the Texas Division of Legal Justice.
The dept stated Friday {that a} $22,500 praise used to be being presented for info resulting in the seize of Lopez.
Lopez used to be convicted in 2006 of killing a person alongside the Texas-Mexico border.
Lopez escaped in Leon County, a rural house between Dallas and Houston. Categories within the close by Centerville Impartial Faculty District have been canceled Friday as a precaution.
The Leon County Sheriff’s Workplace stated a number of companies have been concerned within the seek, together with plane from the Texas Division of Public Protection.
16 prisoners have been aboard the bus, however nobody else escaped, Clark stated.
Leon County has kind of 16,000 citizens and is ready 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of the state’s jail headquarters.
Jail data display Lopez used to be maximum lately being held at a lockup in Gatesville, greater than 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the place government have been looking out.
Different prisoners in Texas have additionally escaped shipping cars over time. Some of the most up-to-date used to be in 2019 when an MMA fighter suspected of killing two other people fled from a van and used to be lacking for 9 hours. Government stated he used to be in the end discovered hiding in a trash can.