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40% : (Nirmalendu Majumdar/The Des Moines Register via AP)Texas escapee who killed family slainCENTERVILLE, Texas -- A convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver last month was fatally shot by law enforcement in Texas after he killed five members of a family, including four children, and stole a truck from their rural weekend cabin, officials said.
35% :Gonzalo Lopez, 46, died in a shootout with police late Thursday in Jourdanton, about 35 miles south of San Antonio, after driving the pickup more than 200 miles from the cabin, said Jason Clark, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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