At a press conference, authorities noted that members of the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office They saw him on Thursday night and started chasing him. At one point, officers placed spike strips and caused Lopez to crash.
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Moments later there was a confrontation and the agents shot and killed López.
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The location where he was shot is about 220 miles (354 kilometers) southeast of Centerville, Texas, about 110 miles (180 kilometers) north of Houston, near where Jason Clark, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said. Lopez had killed a Houston family of five in their weekend cabin and stolen their truck.
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The fence around the fugitive López tightened after the discovery of five bodies in a cabin
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Lopez was thought to be hiding in the vicinity of the cabin when officers received a concerned call after not hearing from a relative.
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Officers went to the family’s weekend cabin along Texas Route 7 west of Centerville around 6 p.m. Thursday and found the bodies of one adult and four minors, three of them children. .
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Their identities were not released, but their white truck was missing, Clark said. The family, who were from the Houston area, are believed to have arrived Thursday morning at the cabin on their property, Clark said. Authorities suspect the five were killed Thursday afternoon and had no connection to Lopez, he said.
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Lopez, 46, was serving a life sentence for capital murder in Hidalgo County and attempted capital murder in Webb County, near the US-Mexico border. He was convicted in 2016.
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