A Texas prisoner who escaped detention three weeks ago is suspected of slaughtering a 66-year-old man and four of his grandchildren hours before police shot dead the fugitive. Gonzalo Lopez, died in a shootout with cops in Jourdantown, Texas outside of San Antonio while he was driving a pickup owned by the granddad. Grandfather Mark Collins and his grandchildren were found dead in a cabin in rural Centerville, 100 miles outside of Houston and more than 200 miles from where Lopez was shot and killed by officers. The other victims were three brothers – Waylon Collins, 18, Carson Collins, 16 and Hudson Collins, 11 –and their cousin, Bryson Collins, 11. The family members had arrived early Thursday at the cabin, which was used on weekends for hunting and other outdoor activities, reports said. Lopez, who was serving two life sentences for murder, escaped from a prison bus on May 12 after he somehow undid his shackles, got out of a metal cage and stabbed the driver with an unknown object in the hand. Lopez got off the bus for a moment then hopped back on and drove it a short distance before corrections officers fired shots and disabled the bus. A cellphone video after his escape appeared to show him in a wooded area evading cops – on June 2, when cops stopped his truck as he was headed south toward the US border with Mexico, officials said. Lopez had a pistol and AR-15 style rifle when he was killed. SUPPORT MY WORK Buy Me a Coffee ☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeptruecrime ☕ FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA www.twitter.com/deeptruecrime www.facebook.com/deeptruecrime www.tiktok.com/@deeptruecrime www.instagram.com/deeptruecrime Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.
