The Authorities dropped the ball on this escapee from the very beginning. Something just doesn't sit right with me about how this escapee got off that bus & was able to flee. The Authorities did not inform the public enough about the escapee & how dangerous he was. My heart & prayers go out to this family & their friends, may God guide you through this time of grief & sorrow. May the Grandfather & his Grandsons RIP.
Cops don't care about anything but themselves. I guarantee they were fully aware he was in regards to their safety but didn't tell the public because they wanted it to be forgotten cause they messed up so bad. Then the cowards that wouldn't go in the elementary school to save innocent children because once again they were looking out for themselves above the children.
You called it lady!. You knew something was up when they wouldn’t answer you and refused to discuss anything going on. Kudos to all of media that tries to hold authorities accountable for TRUTH. Something we, as citizens deserve from out civil servants.
I feel they had some reason to give this guy a chance to run....Somebody got paid by the MexMoff . You can buy trail cams that will call you and you can get photo instantly. If he would have been pot grower they would have dispersed hundreds or thousands of these and the pot grower would not have made it 24 hrs. Drones, paper posters. Blanket phone alerts Amber alerts are routinely deployed. But why not for this killer ? Was it just to much to ask to take this seriously?
I agree with you. He had escaped before, he was in jail for life(nothing to lose) and they knew he was ruthless, extremely dangerous and a flight risk. Why was he being transported like that in the first place? With 15 other inmates and just 2 correctional officers. They dropped the ball big time. Wasn't he also supposedly strip searched before boarding the bus? It's extremely sad what happed to this beautiful family😭
I'm so upset about what this family had to go through, they had to be scared, this was suppose to be a weekend with his grandkids, Prayer's and blessings to this beautiful family, Please GOD give this family STRENGTH, GOD bless everyone!!!!!
The big picture is that this creep shouldn't have been in this country to begin with. This is only the beginning of the effects of Joe Biden's Open Border Policy. More violent crime lies ahead. The media is hamming this up as usual. They could have been posting photos of Lopez daily but we're whining about other crap.
So horrible. I read three of the grandson's were brothers. I can't imagine losing one of my sons let alone three of them. God be with this family. So very sorry they didn't catch that monster before this atrocity happened. 🙏💔
@Jasen Vernor Yes, there were four boys. What I was saying is that I read three of the boys were brothers. The fourth boy was their cousin. All four of the boys were grandsons of the grandpa killed too. Just horrible!
Yes, 3 of the boys Carson, Hudson and Waylon were brothers (11, 16 and 18) they also had a cousin with them who was 11. Grandpa was 66 year old Mark Collins.
Why was the authorities so secretive from the beginning. Spokesman kept saying we don't believe he left the area, we don't have evidence he left the area. When asked what evidence they do have we got "it's an ongoing investigation" If they kept seeing him on trail cams freaking tell the people that. Should've sent a couple of special ops guys out to hunt him day and night. Not a bunch of over weight prison guards looking for overtime hours.
For real. On horses walking on the side of the rode too like he would be in plain site. Why didn't they pull a tactical unit out with night vision goggles hunting this guy?
@@crovax17 I know right, or use drones or keep the dogs out there longer, I feel like they were lazy with this. How could the dogs not pick up his scent
This is a huge failure by the Texas department of corrections and the law enforcement in that entire state tbh. This guy was a basic street thug. He went from a shackled prisoner to a guy with an AR15 and a hand gun after having killed an entire family. Seems absolutely absurd and there needs to be other people held accountable for this and changes made so this can't happen again.
What about turning dogs loose if he was seen on deer cams why couldn’t they track him. Something very disturbing going on doesn’t all jive. condolences deeply to the family RIP
@@misssweetpea6936 they're covering their big fat lazy country boy asses. Just watch any ex-convict talk about prison they are extremely corrupt from the top down.
Questions: Why haven't we seen the inside of the bus, while explaining how he escaped? How in hell did a convicted murderer get out of handcuffs, and leg shackles, and cut thru a metal cage ? Why didn't the cop's chase after him, while shooting, when they were told by citizens they seen him running thru the field? ( They said, yea we know). If the cop's cleared the vacation home several times, why didn't they take the weapon's from it, for safety reasons? Why was the family allowed back into their vacation home, which was in the same general area , while this convict was still loose? Was the citizens in the immediate area told he escaped the area, and led to believe it was safe? One neighbor said this in an interview. These, among other questions, should be answered soon. Prayers to the family.
they wouldn't let the media in to report on the bus. they claimed it was against safety policy. at this point this system obviously should no longer be used and shouldn't matter if the layout was known to the public.
John G : He also somehow got into the protected drivers cab and stabbed the driver in the hand and chest. And then took control of the bus. Was the driver not armed? What was he doing while Lopez was driving the bus?
1) They saw him on trail cameras 2) He at times was wearing a ghillie suit which allowed him to go undetected in the woods 3) there was another unoccupied cabin there in the area that had had an unexplained increase in power/electricity being used and that had been reported 4) a cabin next door to The Collins’ had just been burglarized on Monday…Lopez’ fingerprints were in that cabin. All of that information should’ve been made known to that community.
I will never understand how these murdering filthy Godless entities manage to live life in prison escape only to commit more crimes and still never be executed!! my heart bleeds for these people who have lost their family members there are no words that will ever repair the damage that WE have done, our judicial system is a failure... I pray God gives you the strength to get through this incredibly Dark Times..
Boony: I agree with everything you have written here except the God part. These are mad dogs and mad dogs should be put down before they create more grief and sarrow.
Shame on you for bringing "godless" into this. Neither you nor anyone else is more moral than others simply because you rely on faith instead of facts and because you choose to believe in your invisible friend. This man was an absolute monster of a human being, regardless of his religion or lack thereof.
The corrections department needs to be held accountable the local authorities need to be held accountable !!!!! no way this evil monster conventiely cut thru cuffs shackles then cut thru steel gate door all the while a corrections officer was in the back and if they weren't on the take then they fucked up big time followed by local law enforcement officials who did a disastrous job in finding this monster so many mistakes, and then letting guard down taking search elsewhere...notifying the people in that area that it's ok to start going about daily activities, did you really think he wasn't in the area when you have so many empty homes this monster eventually gained access to them why wasn't anyone going door to door checking these empty homes and the ones being occupied to make sure no one was taken hostage which is what eventually happened and this grandfather and his 4 grandchildren lost their lives, this is a horrific nightmare their family is now enduring God bless the grandfather and grandchildren may they rest in piece....
i would bet money there will be lawsuits that will settle for unknown amounts. if i had to guess around 2million per person. there is a formula they use to come up with the amount.
Many years ago, an inmate escaped from one of the prisons in Tennessee Colony and made it pretty close to where we live. About three in the morning one of my dogs alerted that someone was around. The inmate was stealing a cousin of my husband's truck. The next day the Texas Rangers showed up at our house and figured out he wasn't here. If he had been, he would have been in very bad shape from dog bites! Later that day he was found in DALLAS! It didn't take long for this inmate to be found, so WHAT IN THE HELL went wrong THIS TIME??? NO REASON what ever for it to have come to this. The dogs I had then only barked when SOMEONE was around and not varmits. How he heard that inmate a half mile away is testament to how good their hearing is!
I bet there going to find out they were killed with grandpa's guns. He may of had the guns even locked up in a cabinet and the pos found them gained access to them and then the unimaginable happened that tha family walked in on him, maybe startled him and he just started shooting killing all of them.
I agree with you. He had escaped before, he was in jail for life(nothing to lose) and they knew he was ruthless, extremely dangerous and a flight risk. Why was he being transported like that in the first place? With 15 other inmates and just 2 correctional officers. They dropped the ball big time. Wasn't he also supposedly strip searched before boarding the bus? It's extremely sad what happed to this beautiful family😭
Wasn't there canine units that could have been called in to track him the moment he escaped on foot? Based on the information released now. A state of emergency should have been declared with hundreds of soldiers patrolling the area 247 to protect the citizens until the individual was flushed out. Such awful things happening all over the world. We must learn to pray for one another.
They did bring out the canines and they had a helicopter and lots of law enforcement everywhere, the closed down highway 7 for several days too. It's a wooded area and lots of barns to hide. Whatever they did wasn't enough. They dropped the ball big time transporting such a dangerous psychopath with 15 other inmates and not enough guards.
Texas cops are seriously looking bad. This horror piled upon the horrible massacre in Uvalde is a compelling reason for absolute reform of police tactics in various areas.
I cannot imagine losing ONE CHILD, let alone THREE. I also cannot fathom htf that convict was just running away into the woods with no one chasing him, while that family videotaped him. 🤯
Two men are responsible for the murders of the five Texas family members - the two correctional guards on the prison transport bus! This sort of thing doesn't happen when you have qualified people transporting the prisoners!
What type of protocol allows such a dangerous individual, to be alone on a prison bus without adequate supervision and restraints? Just the driver, and was that driver armed? Investigate that driver!
@@truthbeknown2022 He only got stabbed in the hand was the initial report. What was just a bus driver doing on the transport? They never mentioned another guard.
That entire beautiful family gone 😭😭😭😭 My thoughts, love, and prayers to the victims family and friends... May their sweet souls rest in forever peace 😢❤🌹
I can’t with this anymore. We’ve all followed these stories. I’ve been in tears today grieving over these 5 souls. Police hold everything close to the vest. We just want to help them! But they treat us all like shit and they treat us all like criminals. They can be the hero’s and have the glory! We just want to help them put a stop to things like this. Cartel paid someone off here. How could one man escape like that and evade like this for so long. In Texas!!! How could one man, running through a field on camera with police watching and doing nothing get away with this. Can you imagine if this were your family?? Something needs to change!!!
I agree, this evil man had connections. It reeks of people being paid to look the other way. The Collins family should demand answers. Sadly no amount of cash could ever fix this for those poor folks.
Incompetence got this family murdered for no reason. Shame on you texas for shame. Let him free to kill. Now no one but TDC is left to be held accountable shameful
It's a tragedy that innocent people lose their lives over evil in any situation. Stop with the senseless "traditional" memorials of candles, teddy bears, balloons, etc. They'll just get stolen and hauled off to the dump. Those "material" sentiments are items of dollar value. Instead of throwing your money away, start a monetary funding for the families regardless of the total. It's a waste of money if you dont. Leave cards and letters if you find the need to do so. Better, yet, send them to the families.
One man killed 5 men and young men. This is why you don't let society remove your claws under the illusion that you will be protected by man or a higher power. This family will soon become an afterthought like so many before them. No person on this earth has the right to tell you that you cannot protect your own life. In this world you can be the Lion or the sheep.... the choice is yours. ............GRIM
@@GRIMSREVENGE253 how did you come to that conclusion? The LEO who didn't do their job, and the gun owner who didn't put his guns in a safe makes more sense. Everyone wants the perks of gun ownership, no one wants the responsibility.
I hope the family members sue the police for fumbling this one, should’ve been checking on the home owners near the area every day searching for this mad man.
i am a retired CO and i am saying Lopez had inside help with this escape. anytime we did a prisoner transport all inmates were strip searched, and were than placed in handcuffs, leg irons, a waist chain and a black box placed over the hand cuffs and a pad lock placed on the black box. it is impossiable for a inmate to get out of this. i also wonder why on the day of the escape armed COs did not shoot this inmate in the back while he was running across that field . this stinks to high heaven Texas DOC needs to be investagated and their procedures for inmate transport need to be looked at.
Let me tell you why, that bus was not properly searched before and after EVERY use daily, down on your hands and knees look under every seat and area. That dumb ass inmate been planning this shit and went back and forth enough times to plant his contraband on the bus to use it when he planned to escape. He was not properly strip searched off the unit, strip naked, given a new jumper, taken to the boss chair. The cuffs were probably not on tight enough because he was known for slipping his restraints. He didn't have to have a key or homemade key for the restraints because he would not of been able to defeat the black/blue box and lock. They just were not clamped down on him and therefore he was able to slip out. Once he got his hand free the rest was not hard to defeat the leg irons even with a paperclip you know. As for the mesh he probably knew how to get on that bus and sit in the same seat or close to the gate to cut on it a little every time he rode that bus, Then when it was time for his escape he had everything in place to do what he did, no one was playing ** what if ** that day obviously. Those inmates ride those buses enough to know what the officers are going to be doing on that long trip. I think they should check the cell phone records of the officer in the back of the bus, was you sleep was you texting was you talking because you was not looking down the walkway of that bus and your partner was stabbed. Nice of him to shoot out the tires and disable the bus good job on that part most people wouldn't of thought that far in advance. I believe A lot of complacency caused this escape. That piece of shit inmate had broke his thumbs awhile back so he could manipulate restraints. There should of been 3 officers on that chain bus preferably a supervisor due to the custody level of that inmate and others on that bus. Security precaution designators are in place for a reason to allow you knowledge of what inmates can slip restraints, what inmates escape prior, what inmates are staff assaultive, which he was, etc, I totally agree with you on the policies & procedures not being followed, but I don't think it was a inside job. It was we do this everyday nothing ever happens and they got too comfortable.
This is just sad 😞 I don’t see how this happen he should have never been able to escape from the bus and it took them 2 weeks to find this animal SMH NO WORDS 🙏🏽🙏🏽
@@kathynorvell2061 Right! It almost make you think did the officer or officers have something to do with the escape? This man wiped out a whole generation of men and Grandpa SAD 😢
I would investigate the driver's bank accounts and his whereabouts for the past few months and every jail officer who got involved in the escape of such a dangerous inmate.
Yea I’m not sure what this family was thinking. Escaped convict in area and you let your kids go to the grandfathers house in the area the convict is in?
@@jf5245 nobody ever said he wasn’t in the area. The same thing happened a year ago when the cops in Florida were looking for murderer who went into the woods and the news and residents thought he escaped. A few months later they found his body in a pond. Conspiracy theories and stupid logic is what killed this family. The news said he was probably somewhere else. The cops thought he was still there because they were still there. Ho was he going to escape the woods? How was whoever was helping him going to find him with the cops in the area and no cell phone? All signs pointed to him being there.
@@jf5245 That's not true law enforcement never cleared any area.... Nothing was cleared intill he's caught. That's ridiculous statement. Exspecially in Leon county.
This entire series of events is literally a play by play of events in a script out of some old horror movie, laid out in real time. What's more is the trauma our nation is facing will only get worse.
Why are PRISONERS not injected with a GPS locator?????????????? They would have found him a lot sooner. Anyone who commits a serious felony or any felony for that matter should be given a FREE implanted GPS somewhere in the head so they cant remove it.
Can one of the news outlets please show a map of where the bus escape was and where the family cabin was, so we can have an actual idea of how for or how close he was all this time ....the lady is right, the community let their guard down, all abandoned or summer houses should have been checked!! and no one should have been let come inside the perimeter without escort and pre-searching a vacant house/ property.....but a distance map between locations would clear some questions out!
What a heart breaker, this is so sad. Career criminal escapes and kills a family before he is caught. Looks like we got Barney Fife and Otis the drunk running corrections in Texas,. WFT, there needs to be an investigation as to why such a high profile killer was transported in such a unprofessional manner. We would not be talking about how a family has been destroyed over a dirt bag who slipped his transportation team. Maybe Gober is available to help out.
@@jeanne1271 Amen to that, I live in the peoples republic of California, so I feel your pain. Texas however? not no but h ell no. I worked as a captain for the california dept of corruption, lots of mistakes but not on this level under my command, this is a screw beyond all recognition. Heads need to roll, family killed tragic. CDC was ran by the mexican mafia I spent 25 years of my life try ing to change that, but another story. These poor kids that were cheated out of a full life by the Texas corrections inability to provide safety and security to the citizens of Texas, its basic fundamental situational awareness 101,
I have seen a fugitive apprehension team from the TDCJ. They have revolvers and are not too keen. They were eating lunch at the Taco Palenque in Cotulla one day. I was not impressed. Where were the US Marshalls? They are actual fugitive trackers.
There is no such thing as law enforcement in TX. Law enforcement is an oxymoron. A contradiction in terms. I guess all police departments across TX have a different agenda than to do the right thing by saving someone's life. Pathetic.
To lose your dad and your children all at the same time. How do you ever recover from a tragedy like that. RIP Innocent Ones. 🙏
Drugs
Hopefully w/A Huge Support Group,Church,Community,Peace He's No Longer able to Kill Further,,Very Traumatic💔
they were careless and stupid
The Authorities dropped the ball on this escapee from the very beginning. Something just doesn't sit right with me about how this escapee got off that bus & was able to flee. The Authorities did not inform the public enough about the escapee & how dangerous he was. My heart & prayers go out to this family & their friends, may God guide you through this time of grief & sorrow. May the Grandfather & his Grandsons RIP.
Cops don't care about anything but themselves. I guarantee they were fully aware he was in regards to their safety but didn't tell the public because they wanted it to be forgotten cause they messed up so bad. Then the cowards that wouldn't go in the elementary school to save innocent children because once again they were looking out for themselves above the children.
The American illegal immigration issue is starting to come back to bite viciously.
Well said & agreed ! 💯😳🙏
Depp vs heard was on more than this
for some reason I believe it's an instead job just saying😏👌🍻
You called it lady!. You knew something was up when they wouldn’t answer you and refused to discuss anything going on. Kudos to all of media that tries to hold authorities accountable for TRUTH. Something we, as citizens deserve from out civil servants.
This is so sad! Such a beautiful family taken away! My thoughts and prayers go out to their family!
My condolences to the Collins family and I am glad he was put down permanently.
This wouldn’t have happened if someone hadn’t place a shank in the bus this family would still be alive this is all on TDCJ
I feel they had some reason to give this guy a chance to run....Somebody got paid by the MexMoff . You can buy trail cams that will call you and you can get photo instantly. If he would have been pot grower they would have dispersed hundreds or thousands of these and the pot grower would not have made it 24 hrs. Drones, paper posters. Blanket phone alerts Amber alerts are routinely deployed. But why not for this killer ? Was it just to much to ask to take this seriously?
Law enforcement needs to be held accountable for this epic failure.
I agree with you. He had escaped before, he was in jail for life(nothing to lose) and they knew he was ruthless, extremely dangerous and a flight risk. Why was he being transported like that in the first place? With 15 other inmates and just 2 correctional officers. They dropped the ball big time. Wasn't he also supposedly strip searched before boarding the bus? It's extremely sad what happed to this beautiful family😭
I agree with you 💯 !
But they won’t
Tdcj Will claim they need more money....
Unacceptable
I'm so upset about what this family had to go through, they had to be scared, this was suppose to be a weekend with his grandkids, Prayer's and blessings to this beautiful family, Please GOD give this family STRENGTH, GOD bless everyone!!!!!
There is no God and this is proof.
@@nitromartini1422 then what created us
@@nitromartini1422 why you blame God?
@@nancypaola824 : God does not exist.
@@ritaj5676 I can only imagine the pain your family are going through, May GOD continue give your family STRENGTH!!¡! GOD Bless!!!
Just too heartbreaking to take in. What a beautiful family. Please RIP. Praying for the family.
This is absolutely ridiculous and very upsetting. 🥺
Why did he kill the children it doesn't make sense. He was an evil monster.
A retired FBI agent explained in an earlier interview tonight that he was a member of the Mexican Mafia and they kill no matter what. Heartbreaking!
He had ties to the Mexican mafia.
He was a criminal, they don't care.
Bless that family. They did not deserve that at all. What a nasty prick that man was. Pure evil.
Just evil.
Why do women abort children? There's just evil in this world.
Absolutely crazy that they couldn't find him before the murders. RIP to the victims 🙏
They weren’t trying to find him
Make it better and Put this People in to the Future ,in so a Bus, a Tracker on a leg .
This make so People better Visible in the Future.
Not couldn’t…WOULDN’T😢
The only good thing about this, is he's dead now, the police did the right thing by filling him full of lead.
The big picture is that this creep shouldn't have been in this country to begin with. This is only the beginning of the effects of Joe Biden's Open Border Policy. More violent crime lies ahead.
The media is hamming this up as usual. They could have been posting photos of Lopez daily but we're whining about other crap.
So horrible. I read three of the grandson's were brothers. I can't imagine losing one of my sons let alone three of them. God be with this family. So very sorry they didn't catch that monster before this atrocity happened. 🙏💔
@Jasen Vernor Yes, there were four boys. What I was saying is that I read three of the boys were brothers. The fourth boy was their cousin. All four of the boys were grandsons of the grandpa killed too. Just horrible!
Yes, 3 of the boys Carson, Hudson and Waylon were brothers (11, 16 and 18) they also had a cousin with them who was 11. Grandpa was 66 year old Mark Collins.
@@chasinglighttoo Exactly. I feel so sad and one of them their dad lost all 3 his boys and his dad. 💔 how heartbreaking. 🥺
My heart aches at the thought of their mothers receiving the news. I can feel her pain and hear her screaming inconsolably. 💔💔💔
they were all related cousins and brothers so sad
Why was the authorities so secretive from the beginning. Spokesman kept saying we don't believe he left the area, we don't have evidence he left the area. When asked what evidence they do have we got "it's an ongoing investigation" If they kept seeing him on trail cams freaking tell the people that. Should've sent a couple of special ops guys out to hunt him day and night. Not a bunch of over weight prison guards looking for overtime hours.
A bunch of over weight prison guards! 😂
Yeah it’s amazing how a family found the guy before hundreds of law enforcement did
For real. On horses walking on the side of the rode too like he would be in plain site. Why didn't they pull a tactical unit out with night vision goggles hunting this guy?
@@crovax17 I know right, or use drones or keep the dogs out there longer, I feel like they were lazy with this. How could the dogs not pick up his scent
I think their biggest mistake was not go into the empty houses to search for him.
So sad. My deepest condolences and prayers to the Collins family. RIP.
I think he was hiding out in that cabin. Sad story.
This is a huge failure by the Texas department of corrections and the law enforcement in that entire state tbh. This guy was a basic street thug. He went from a shackled prisoner to a guy with an AR15 and a hand gun after having killed an entire family. Seems absolutely absurd and there needs to be other people held accountable for this and changes made so this can't happen again.
A single National Guard unit would have found him. Fully equipped to find folks. Thermals, ravens ect…. What a loss prayers to the families.
I'm so thankful president Biden is willing to take all of our guns. With news like this, who would even want one?
What about turning dogs loose if he was seen on deer cams why couldn’t they track him. Something very disturbing going on doesn’t all jive. condolences deeply to the family RIP
@@misssweetpea6936 they're covering their big fat lazy country boy asses. Just watch any ex-convict talk about prison they are extremely corrupt from the top down.
TX LEO’s got a lot of blood on their hands recently
Heck yeah, mucho!
Yep, you ain't lying.
Horrible. He should have just tied them up and took the truck. He didn't have to kill all them kids
TDCJ is responsible for all this 100%
He is evil ,born to kill only and to do all sorts of monstrous acts .
Beyond irresponsible why where not families alerted he may still be in the area condolences to the family 🙏🙏💙🙏🙏
Like Joe said the family should have had a . 22 to wound him until the very responsible authorities showed up later with a social worker.
To be fair it was all over the news. These cops still could have done more though. Much more.
The authorities did alert people. But many naive people underestimate the mafia. Never underestimate a member.
Just dont do it.
Pure evil.
Why are the Texas police so incompetent, the school now this?
Questions:
Why haven't we seen the inside of the bus, while explaining how he escaped?
How in hell did a convicted murderer get out of handcuffs, and leg shackles, and cut thru a metal cage ? Why didn't the cop's chase after him, while shooting, when they were told by citizens they seen him running thru the field? ( They said, yea we know). If the cop's cleared the vacation home several times, why didn't they take the weapon's from it, for safety reasons? Why was the family allowed back into their vacation home, which was in the same general area , while this convict was still loose? Was the citizens in the immediate area told he escaped the area, and led to believe it was safe? One neighbor said this in an interview.
These, among other questions, should be answered soon. Prayers to the family.
Great questions.
You should repost this
they wouldn't let the media in to report on the bus. they claimed it was against safety policy. at this point this system obviously should no longer be used and shouldn't matter if the layout was known to the public.
John G : He also somehow got into the protected drivers cab and stabbed the driver in the hand and chest.
And then took control of the bus.
Was the driver not armed?
What was he doing while Lopez was driving the bus?
...they probably have destroyed the bus. Bus? What bus??
They showing the inside of the bus Because he didn’t cut thru nothing he had keys too everything inside job
Saw him on trail cameras and didn't release that to the public!!!??? WTH!!!!
Wow that’s crazy I know his family it’s crazy
@@avee3301 who's family?
@@jf5245 his family Lopez
1) They saw him on trail cameras
2) He at times was wearing a ghillie suit which allowed him to go undetected in the woods
3) there was another unoccupied cabin there in the area that had had an unexplained increase in power/electricity being used and that had been reported
4) a cabin next door to The Collins’ had just been burglarized on Monday…Lopez’ fingerprints were in that cabin.
All of that information should’ve been made known to that community.
The way Lopez got loose is so suspicious it almost seems that someone in LE was assisting in the escape.
Absolutely law enforcement needs to be sued. It’s heartbreaking 💔 these innocent family were killed by this monster. It’s law enforcement fault 💯
I will never understand how these murdering filthy Godless entities manage to live life in prison escape only to commit more crimes and still never be executed!! my heart bleeds for these people who have lost their family members there are no words that will ever repair the damage that WE have done, our judicial system is a failure... I pray God gives you the strength to get through this incredibly Dark Times..
Boony: I agree with everything you have written here except the God part. These are mad dogs and mad dogs should be put down before they create more grief and sarrow.
Shame on you for bringing "godless" into this. Neither you nor anyone else is more moral than others simply because you rely on faith instead of facts and because you choose to believe in your invisible friend. This man was an absolute monster of a human being, regardless of his religion or lack thereof.
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The corrections department needs to be held accountable the local authorities need to be held accountable !!!!! no way this evil monster conventiely cut thru cuffs shackles then cut thru steel gate door all the while a corrections officer was in the back and if they weren't on the take then they fucked up big time followed by local law enforcement officials who did a disastrous job in finding this monster so many mistakes, and then letting guard down taking search elsewhere...notifying the people in that area that it's ok to start going about daily activities, did you really think he wasn't in the area when you have so many empty homes this monster eventually gained access to them why wasn't anyone going door to door checking these empty homes and the ones being occupied to make sure no one was taken hostage which is what eventually happened and this grandfather and his 4 grandchildren lost their lives, this is a horrific nightmare their family is now enduring God bless the grandfather and grandchildren may they rest in piece....
IKR? What was the correctional officer doing when the criminal was doing all he was doing? I guess he was asleep!
i would bet money there will be lawsuits that will settle for unknown amounts. if i had to guess around 2million per person. there is a formula they use to come up with the amount.
Many years ago, an inmate escaped from one of the prisons in Tennessee Colony and made it pretty close to where we live. About three in the morning one of my dogs alerted that someone was around. The inmate was stealing a cousin of my husband's truck. The next day the Texas Rangers showed up at our house and figured out he wasn't here. If he had been, he would have been in very bad shape from dog bites! Later that day he was found in DALLAS! It didn't take long for this inmate to be found, so WHAT IN THE HELL went wrong THIS TIME??? NO REASON what ever for it to have come to this. The dogs I had then only barked when SOMEONE was around and not varmits. How he heard that inmate a half mile away is testament to how good their hearing is!
Was this family shot with their own guns ? Where did he get the guns? Sad and evil.
I bet there going to find out they were killed with grandpa's guns. He may of had the guns even locked up in a cabinet and the pos found them gained access to them and then the unimaginable happened that tha family walked in on him, maybe startled him and he just started shooting killing all of them.
Yes, they were shot with the family's own AK-15 ,according to another news channel . So,so sad!
@@Itsme-jv4cd I am thinking you mean AR 15 not Ak 47.
I still don’t understand how he got loose and into the front with the USELESS guard in the back with a gun! 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️ makes 0 sense to me
I agree with you. He had escaped before, he was in jail for life(nothing to lose) and they knew he was ruthless, extremely dangerous and a flight risk. Why was he being transported like that in the first place? With 15 other inmates and just 2 correctional officers. They dropped the ball big time. Wasn't he also supposedly strip searched before boarding the bus? It's extremely sad what happed to this beautiful family😭
@@AnaDiaz-wz4cf exactly!!! And for a medical appointment?! That’s crazy
Why did they shoot tires on bus but not him the day he escaped??? Sounds like Texas needs a overhaul on law enforcement
What a nightmare! Prayers going up for this family and friends. I have friends that live there. This is heartbreaking to the core.
Wasn't there canine units that could have been called in to track him the moment he escaped on foot? Based on the information released now. A state of emergency should have been declared with hundreds of soldiers patrolling the area 247 to protect the citizens until the individual was flushed out. Such awful things happening all over the world. We must learn to pray for one another.
I guess canines are only used in the movies…
Praying does absolutely no good. Better border control does. Don't let these pos's in our country in the first place.
They did bring out the canines and they had a helicopter and lots of law enforcement everywhere, the closed down highway 7 for several days too. It's a wooded area and lots of barns to hide. Whatever they did wasn't enough. They dropped the ball big time transporting such a dangerous psychopath with 15 other inmates and not enough guards.
Texas cops are seriously looking bad. This horror piled upon the horrible massacre in Uvalde is a compelling reason for absolute reform of police tactics in various areas.
LE response.." This is a tragedy where 5 individuals lost their lives." That's all they can say??
I cannot imagine losing ONE CHILD, let alone THREE. I also cannot fathom htf that convict was just running away into the woods with no one chasing him, while that family videotaped him. 🤯
How cops transfer jailman in light handcuffs? I assume he got help inside the bus, how he can cut wire cage in the bus? Investigate….
exactly
Two men are responsible for the murders of the five Texas family members - the two correctional guards on the prison transport bus! This sort of thing doesn't happen when you have qualified people transporting the prisoners!
What type of protocol allows such a dangerous individual, to be alone on a prison bus without adequate supervision and restraints? Just the driver, and was that driver armed? Investigate that driver!
They haven't answered any of those questions. 1 or 2 individuals dropped the ball very hard on this and they're covering it all up.
You don't get to manage these senseless atrocities without a strong guard from Satanic force. This is absolute, and not subject to debate.
@@TheFrenchPug now I wonder, this guy being a killer, was the driver's injuries life threatening, or superficial? It does reek of a cover up!
@@truthbeknown2022 He only got stabbed in the hand was the initial report. What was just a bus driver doing on the transport? They never mentioned another guard.
maybe on purpose..... to do a job..
hold them cops accountable. pure negligence
And that's why violent criminals should be exsecuted and not jailed
Especially Cartel's hitman.
Real honest news for once. Wow. Thank you and thank you for calling out this for what it is. Total bs. 5 innocent lives lost. Sickening.
An avoidable tragedy. May the souls of the dead rest in peace.
That entire beautiful family gone 😭😭😭😭
My thoughts, love, and prayers to the victims family and friends...
May their sweet souls rest in forever peace 😢❤🌹
Why didn't they check the summer homes & cabins? They prison & sheriff's should be held liable for that family deaths
I can’t with this anymore. We’ve all followed these stories. I’ve been in tears today grieving over these 5 souls. Police hold everything close to the vest. We just want to help them! But they treat us all like shit and they treat us all like criminals. They can be the hero’s and have the glory! We just want to help them put a stop to things like this. Cartel paid someone off here. How could one man escape like that and evade like this for so long. In Texas!!! How could one man, running through a field on camera with police watching and doing nothing get away with this. Can you imagine if this were your family?? Something needs to change!!!
You bring up some VERY pertinent questions that beg to be answered..............
I agree, this evil man had connections. It reeks of people being paid to look the other way. The Collins family should demand answers. Sadly no amount of cash could ever fix this for those poor folks.
Wow so sad rest in peace to this beautiful family
A beautiful White Family too!
Incompetence got this family murdered for no reason. Shame on you texas for shame. Let him free to kill. Now no one but TDC is left to be held accountable shameful
The worse ending possible . this is just hard to even imagine something like this could've happened.
It's a tragedy that innocent people lose their lives over evil in any situation. Stop with the senseless "traditional" memorials of candles, teddy bears, balloons, etc. They'll just get stolen and hauled off to the dump. Those "material" sentiments are items of dollar value. Instead of throwing your money away, start a monetary funding for the families regardless of the total. It's a waste of money if you dont. Leave cards and letters if you find the need to do so. Better, yet, send them to the families.
One man killed 5 men and young men. This is why you don't let society remove your claws under the illusion that you will be protected by man or a higher power. This family will soon become an afterthought like so many before them. No person on this earth has the right to tell you that you cannot protect your own life.
In this world you can be the Lion or the sheep.... the choice is yours. ............GRIM
look a gun owner didn't lock his guns up. when are you going to talk about that?
@@jonathanwaters2624
This family blood is on your hands and mines.
@@GRIMSREVENGE253 how did you come to that conclusion? The LEO who didn't do their job, and the gun owner who didn't put his guns in a safe makes more sense. Everyone wants the perks of gun ownership, no one wants the responsibility.
@@jonathanwaters2624
I went into details why but my comment was shadow block. So I'll just let UA-cam explain it to you.
Quit showing this guy.
Well it's Ashley Banfield soooo. You can't expect decent reporting.
I know!! I don’t want to see that evil thing..🥺
No police or prison staff would be held accountable unbelievable
I hope the family members sue the police for fumbling this one, should’ve been checking on the home owners near the area every day searching for this mad man.
Bless this family. This is so horrible .
Why do they keep these gang members alive!!!
Wouldn’t say it like that. You mean murderers
i am a retired CO and i am saying Lopez had inside help with this escape. anytime we did a prisoner transport all inmates were strip searched, and were than placed in handcuffs, leg irons, a waist chain and a black box placed over the hand cuffs and a pad lock placed on the black box. it is impossiable for a inmate to get out of this. i also wonder why on the day of the escape armed COs did not shoot this inmate in the back while he was running across that field . this stinks to high heaven Texas DOC needs to be investagated and their procedures for inmate transport need to be looked at.
Let me tell you why, that bus was not properly searched before and after EVERY use daily, down on your hands and knees look under every seat and area. That dumb ass inmate been planning this shit and went back and forth enough times to plant his contraband on the bus to use it when he planned to escape. He was not properly strip searched off the unit, strip naked, given a new jumper, taken to the boss chair. The cuffs were probably not on tight enough because he was known for slipping his restraints. He didn't have to have a key or homemade key for the restraints because he would not of been able to defeat the black/blue box and lock. They just were not clamped down on him and therefore he was able to slip out. Once he got his hand free the rest was not hard to defeat the leg irons even with a paperclip you know. As for the mesh he probably knew how to get on that bus and sit in the same seat or close to the gate to cut on it a little every time he rode that bus, Then when it was time for his escape he had everything in place to do what he did, no one was playing ** what if ** that day obviously. Those inmates ride those buses enough to know what the officers are going to be doing on that long trip. I think they should check the cell phone records of the officer in the back of the bus, was you sleep was you texting was you talking because you was not looking down the walkway of that bus and your partner was stabbed. Nice of him to shoot out the tires and disable the bus good job on that part most people wouldn't of thought that far in advance. I believe A lot of complacency caused this escape. That piece of shit inmate had broke his thumbs awhile back so he could manipulate restraints. There should of been 3 officers on that chain bus preferably a supervisor due to the custody level of that inmate and others on that bus. Security precaution designators are in place for a reason to allow you knowledge of what inmates can slip restraints, what inmates escape prior, what inmates are staff assaultive, which he was, etc, I totally agree with you on the policies & procedures not being followed, but I don't think it was a inside job. It was we do this everyday nothing ever happens and they got too comfortable.
Why didn't LE go door to door in Centerville cabins/homes where a fugitive is more likely to hide out vs. fugitive hiding out in woods.
All this could have been avoided, absolutely disgusting. Two guards with fifteen criminals? Shameful. The system failed those victims.
Our deepest condolences to the family’s.
How did he escaped, if he was such a dangerous murderer?.
This is just sad 😞 I don’t see how this happen he should have never been able to escape from the bus and it took them 2 weeks to find this animal SMH NO WORDS 🙏🏽🙏🏽
IKR!!! What about the other armed officer at the back of the bus? Was he sleeping? This is so horrific! Deepest heartfelt condolences fo
@@kathynorvell2061 Right! It almost make you think did the officer or officers have something to do with the escape? This man wiped out a whole generation of men and Grandpa SAD 😢
@@terrytyson1240 I agree. The question BEGS to be asked!!!!
Do not let this go. Hold LEO's accountable.
Many have mentioned that these types of criminals should have a tracker like dogs and I agree.
I would investigate the driver's bank accounts and his whereabouts for the past few months and every jail officer who got involved in the escape of such a dangerous inmate.
God bless the family and to the entire community!
Deepest heartfelt condolences for this family! 🙏
Yea I’m not sure what this family was thinking. Escaped convict in area and you let your kids go to the grandfathers house in the area the convict is in?
It was everyone's understanding that he was no longer in the area.
@@jf5245 nobody ever said he wasn’t in the area. The same thing happened a year ago when the cops in Florida were looking for murderer who went into the woods and the news and residents thought he escaped. A few months later they found his body in a pond. Conspiracy theories and stupid logic is what killed this family. The news said he was probably somewhere else. The cops thought he was still there because they were still there. Ho was he going to escape the woods? How was whoever was helping him going to find him with the cops in the area and no cell phone? All signs pointed to him being there.
Don't understand WHY THEY WENT TO THEIR CABIN WA MURDERER IN NEIGHBORHOOD.....were they not told To STAY CLEAR ON OF AREA
@@jf5245 That's not true law enforcement never cleared any area.... Nothing was cleared intill he's caught. That's ridiculous statement. Exspecially in Leon county.
@@Sara-fu1hb Sara you're ridiculous. When they expanded the search they implied he was gone. Unless you don't have common sense.
So sad senseless murders.
So sorry to the family that everyone was MURDERED. I pray HE BURN'S HELL FOR EVERYTHING HE DID
A whole family, wiped out just because Cops Couldn’t work with the community. Rest In Peace to the family of 5
Devastating.. They couldn’t find him in a three mile radius these cops need to resign!!!
This entire series of events is literally a play by play of events in a script out of some old horror movie, laid out in real time.
What's more is the trauma our nation is facing will only get worse.
For this wonderful grandparent who wanted to take these boys on a special wkend, 🙏💝
How did this happen I just don't understand why they moved him he was a dangerous murderer they should never leave the building period.
Why are PRISONERS not injected with a GPS locator??????????????
They would have found him a lot sooner.
Anyone who commits a serious felony or any felony for that matter should be given a FREE implanted GPS somewhere in the head so they cant remove it.
R.I.P. prayers for all the family members of this family. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😢😢😢😢😢
I heard police was offended because people want them defunded turn the cheek see how much they need them shame
Can one of the news outlets please show a map of where the bus escape was and where the family cabin was, so we can have an actual idea of how for or how close he was all this time ....the lady is right, the community let their guard down, all abandoned or summer houses should have been checked!! and no one should have been let come inside the perimeter without escort and pre-searching a vacant house/ property.....but a distance map between locations would clear some questions out!
They said it was only a half mile from where the bus crashed
He is in he'll not doubt,horrific.
I pray the families have strength to go on and grace to grieve as necessary. This is undoubtedly the saddest preventable tragedy.
That’s horrible! God bless them all!
I really wish the family had not visited their weekend home until the POS had been eliminated or positively identified at another location.
My thought exactly, I would never go there in that county unless he was caught. Everybody is to blame.
The (ALL) cops have NOTHING to be proud of 🤬🤬
Everything sounds off.
Something is being hidden here.
Those beautiful boys. I am so so sorry for their parents, for their whole family and all of their friends. 🙏💝
It’s beyond a tragedy Mr. TDCJ spokesman, it’s a monumental disaster your agency caused.
Horrible... 💔😥
Next time you catched a cartel's hitman, send him to the electric chair.
Ashley, I'm so glad you tell it like it is! God bless you!
What a heart breaker, this is so sad. Career criminal escapes and kills a family before he is caught. Looks like we got Barney Fife and Otis the drunk running corrections in Texas,. WFT, there needs to be an investigation as to why such a high profile killer was transported in such a unprofessional manner. We would not be talking about how a family has been destroyed over a dirt bag who slipped his transportation team. Maybe Gober is available to help out.
Texas is another planet, I thought florida was bad , I wouldn’t live in texas for all the money in this world !
@@jeanne1271 Amen to that, I live in the peoples republic of California, so I feel your pain. Texas however? not no but h ell no. I worked as a captain for the california dept of corruption, lots of mistakes but not on this level under my command, this is a screw beyond all recognition. Heads need to roll, family killed tragic. CDC was ran by the mexican mafia I spent 25 years of my life try ing to change that, but another story. These poor kids that were cheated out of a full life by the Texas corrections inability to provide safety and security to the citizens of Texas, its basic fundamental situational awareness 101,
The American illegal immigration issue is starting to come back to bite horribly.
So the white European inmates have never done this right?!?!? 😆🤣😂
He was born in TEXAS 😂
This is so sad. That family, all those people. So disgusting
IT'S JUST SO HEARTBREAKINGLY SAD BECAUSE IT DIDNT NEED TO HAPPEN.
WHERE WAS THE DUE DILIGENCE IN ALL THIS?
I have seen a fugitive apprehension team from the TDCJ. They have revolvers and are not too keen. They were eating lunch at the Taco Palenque in Cotulla one day. I was not impressed.
Where were the US Marshalls? They are actual fugitive trackers.
There is no such thing as law enforcement in TX. Law enforcement is an oxymoron. A contradiction in terms. I guess all police departments across TX have a different agenda than to do the right thing by saving someone's life. Pathetic.
😭😭😭so heartbreaking. My prayers are with the family.
This is so unreal. Those four lovely boys and their grandad were there to have a long weekend of fun and adventure. Like something out of a film.
Between this and Uvalde, all branches of Texas law enforcement have a great deal to account for and answer. Unbelievable.