The manhunt for convicted killer Gonzalo Lopez, who escaped last week, had been focused on Leon County.
The search for 46-year-old Gonzalo Lopez, who attacked a prison bus driver to escape on May 12, will now look statewide, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst said.
The manhunt had centered on a perimeter in a rural part of Leon County west of Centerville where the escape occurred, and manpower there will be scaled back, Hurst said. More than 300 officers, on horseback and on foot and with police dogs and helicopters, had searched the rural area of farms and ranches that is about halfway between Dallas and Houston, officials have said.
In the attempted murder case, Lopez was in a car when the driver shot at a pursuing Webb County sheriff’s deputy during a pursuit in 2004, according to court documents. Lopez got away on foot and later said he had been moved to Mexico by the Mexican Mafia for a time, according to the documents.Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice
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