Family devastated after Texas escapee kills man, grandsons

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53% : Law enforcement spotted him just before 10 p.m. in Atascosa County.
51% : Following his escape, law enforcement vigorously patrolled Highway 7 and other roads in Centerville, escorting many of the city's nearly 1,000 residents to their homes to ensure they felt safe.
43% : Authorities maintained nearly 40 roving patrols, believing he remained in the area around Centerville, possibly entering unoccupied structures to look for food, water and clothing, said Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
42% : Lopez and another person kidnapped Ramirez and left him "hog tied in an outside room of my mom's residence" as they went to pick up money and marijuana that Ramirez's family had left for them, according to court records.
41% : State troopers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice officers, the U.S. Marshals service and sheriff's deputies from Leon County -- which includes Centerville -- searched the area for Lopez for weeks with no luck.
38% : In this Series This morning's top headlines: Friday, June 3 Updated 14 hrs ago Biden appeals for tougher gun laws: 'How much more carnage?'
37% : The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is still investigating how Lopez broke free from his restraints and escaped a caged area of the bus where he had been held.
36% : Gonzalo Lopez, a convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus last month was fatally shot by law enforcement in Texas after he killed five members of the same family, including four children, and stole a truck from their rural weekend cabin, officials said.

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