Following the slayings on Thursday, the community of Centerville, Texas is suffering.

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By Lola Smith

Published: June 4, 2022 | 10:14 PM GMT

The family members of a grandpa and his four grandchildren who were killed by an escaped inmate in Texas last week are in shock.

Community members gathered in the Houston suburb of Tomball on Friday night for a vigil to remember grandfather Mark Collins, 66, brothers Waylon, 18, Carson, 16, and Hudson, 11, and their nephew Bryson, also 11.

The five family members were killed on Thursday when they arrived for a weekend visit to the family’s property in Centerville, some 100 miles north of Houston, where Mexican Mafia hitman Gonzalo Lopez was reportedly hiding after escaping from a prison transport van in the region three weeks ago.

Lopez murdered the family, took their truck, as well as a pistol and an AR-15 rifle, and was shot and killed by police late Thursday after an all-points bulletin was issued on the stolen vehicle.

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