Officials say Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was being transported when he assaulted and stabbed a corrections officer before getting off the bus.
Gonzalo Lopez, 46, was being transported on a bus with 15 other inmates from Gatesville, headed eastbound on Highway 7 to Huntsville Thursday afternoon. During the ride, Lopez was able to get out of his restraints and allegedly stabbed the officer driving the bus in the hand with an unknown object.FOX 26 is told the officer struggled with Lopez to keep him from getting his gun.
Authorities are asking the public to avoid the area of Centerville west to Markay to Buffalo as they work to locate Lopez.SkyFOX was hovering above Highway 7 in Leon County, where a perimeter was set up to find escaped inmate, Gonzalo Lopez, who is serving a life sentence for capital murder but assaulted and stabbed a Texas Department of Criminal Justice corrections officer while being transported.
"I would highly encourage anybody in the public to lock their vehicles locked their doors. We do not know if he has obtained any kind of weapon," said Robert Hurst with TDCJ. "Last we saw him, he did not appear to have a weapon in his possession. But who knows what he might have been able to get between the time that he escaped and now."