A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) said the search for Gonzalo Lopez is the agency’s 'largest concentrated manhunt,' since 2004 or 2005.
KPRC had reported Monday that the search involved more than 300 officers both on foot and on horseback canvassing an area of Leon County, just west of Centerville, some 115 miles from Houston. The search is concentrated on a triangular area spanning more than 100 square miles of the east Texas countryside, WFAA reported.
It’s been nearly a week since Lopez, serving back-to-back life sentences for capital murder and attempted capital murder out of Hidalgo and Webb counties, escaped from a prison bus Thursday traveling from the Alfred Hughes Unit outside of Gatesville in central Texas to a prison medical facility in Huntsville.
The bus crashed, and Lopez fled on foot. He was convicted in the 2005 murder of José Guadalupe Ramirez, who Lopez held for ransom and allegedly later killed on orders from the Mexican cartel.
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