Centerville TX

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Police fatally shoot Texas fugitive after family of 5 killed (ABC News)

State prison officials say a convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver on May 12 has been killed after he killed a ...

The bus then traveled a short distance before leaving the roadway, where Lopez got out and ran into the woods. He then attacked the driver, who stopped the bus and got into an altercation with Lopez, and they both eventually got off the bus. Lopez, 46, had been the subject of an intensive search since his escape from the prison bus. The five are believed to have been killed Thursday afternoon and had no link to Lopez, he said. Officers went to the family's cabin along Texas Route 7 west of Centerville about 6 p.m. Thursday and found the bodies of one adult and four minors, three of them children. Lopez was killed about 220 miles (354 kilometers) southeast of Centerville, Texas, where Clark earlier said Lopez had killed a Houston family of five at their cabin and stole their pickup truck.

GoFundMe account set up for Collins Family members killed by ... (KWTX)

A GoFundMe account has been set up to help the Collins Family with funeral and burial services after four members were killed by an escaped inmate near ...

“I hate for anybody to be killed, that’s just not my nature. I thought the world of him,” said Centerville Mayor Noal Goolsby. “It tore me all to piece, because I knew Mr. Dale Collins for years.

Escaped Texas Convict Shot Dead By Law Enforcement, Officials Say (NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

Officers found two adults and three children dead in Leon County, Texas, where prisoner Gonzalo Lopez escaped custody last month.

The bus then traveled a short distance before leaving the roadway, where Lopez got out and ran into the woods. He then attacked the driver, who stopped the bus and got into an altercation with Lopez, and they both eventually got off the bus. Lopez had been the subject of an intensive search since his escape from the prison bus. The family's white pickup truck was gone, Clark said. Authorities don't yet know whether Lopez had been staying in the cabin or if he ambushed them upon their arrival. Officials said the weapons may have been taken from the cabin.

Gonzalo Lopez: 4 Tomball ISD students and their grandfather may ... (WLS-TV)

Escaped Texas inmate Gonzalo Lopez was shot and killed after allegedly killing a Houston family, one adult and four children, in Atascosa County.

In 1996, Lopez was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault and received two eight-year sentences. "The loss of a student, for any reason, is heartbreaking, but to lose in such a tragic way is excruciating," Dr. Salazar-Zamora wrote in part. They had no link to Lopez, said Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Bounced off and went down and crashed into a telephone pole and a fence. In 1996, Lopez was convicted of two counts of aggravated assault and received two eight-year sentences. Texas Rangers investigators are trying to make sense of how escaped Texas inmate Gonzalo Lopez was able to slip past an intense three-week search. "The loss of a student, for any reason, is heartbreaking, but to lose in such a tragic way is excruciating," Dr. Salazar-Zamora wrote in part. During this difficult time, the Tomball community is continuing to pull together following the tragic loss of four students." They had no link to Lopez, said Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Bounced off and went down and crashed into a telephone pole and a fence. Texas Rangers investigators are trying to make sense of how escaped Texas inmate Gonzalo Lopez was able to slip past an intense three-week search. During this difficult time, the Tomball community is continuing to pull together following the tragic loss of four students."

Five family members, including 4 Tomball ISD students, identified as ... (KHOU.com)

Authorities believe the family was killed by Gonzalo Lopez, a convicted murderer who had been on the run for more than three weeks in the Centerville, ...

Gonzalo Lopez Killed Waylon Collins, Brothers, Cousin, Grandpa ... (Daily Beast)

The innocent family from suburban Houston was in the wrong place at the wrong time, police say.

“Our baseball community is heartbroken to lose a colleague and friend,” he said. Please keep the collins clan in your prayers,” Susie Collins, a family member, said in a Friday post on Facebook. Refusing to surrender, Lopez then pointed a gun out the window and started firing, authorities said. A white 1999 Chevy Silverado was also missing from the home, which authorities believe Lopez used to flee the scene after killing the family, who had arrived at the house just hours prior. “The grandkids loved going up there,” the family member, who did not wish to be named out of respect for his other relatives, added. Cellphone video obtained by KAGS-TV showed the moment Lopez crashed the transfer bus—which was supposed to take him to a medical appointment with over a dozen other inmates—and fled into the woods. It was not immediately clear whether Lopez was already inside the home when the family entered it on Thursday for a fishing trip, as neighbors indicated to The Daily Beast—or if the inmate broke in later. “We are devastated by the loss of our dear family members at the family ranch in Centerville, Texas,” the family said in a statement on Friday, before asking for privacy. Family friends on Friday confirmed that 66-year-old Mark Collins was killed alongside his three grandchildren at the family’s ranch as the group was preparing for a fishing trip. Authorities believe Lopez attacked the 66-year-old grandfather before attacking the other occupants inside the house—including the 18-year-old and three minors. Everybody loved to be around Collins,” he said. He didn’t want to give his name to the press but through tears said, “I watched those boys grow up.”