Texas law enforcement searches for escaped convicted murderer on horseback; reward increased
Fox News
Law enforcement officials took to horseback on Sunday in the search for 46-year-old Gonzalo Lopez, a convicted murderer who escaped from a transport bus on Thursday after stabbing the driver and fleeing on foot.
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"We have no reason to believe he has left the area," the Leon County Sheriff's Office said Saturday. "There is no evidence to support that, at this time."
Lopez is serving a life sentence for kidnapping a man and killing him with a pickax in Hidalgo County near the U.S.-Mexico border in 2006, as well as attempted murder for shooting a police officer in Webb County a couple of years earlier, according to Fox 4 Dallas.