Fugitive who stabbed officer fatally shot after manhunt in Texas [View all]
A five-day manhunt for a Florida fugitive who escaped from prison transport officers in Texas ended early on Saturday when he was shot and killed by law enforcement a few miles from the parking lot where he first got away, police said.
Alberto Morales, who had stabbed one of the transport officers with a piece of his eyeglasses, was caught shortly after midnight in a wooded area near a lake in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, about three miles from the parking lot where he escaped on Monday, police said.
He was shot while law enforcement officials were trying to apprehend him, Grapevine police said in a statement on Saturday.
Morales was not armed but had his hands concealed when law enforcement approached, Grapevine police Officer Sam Shemwell told Reuters. It was later determined that he had sticks in his hands, Shemwell said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/16/us-usa-crime-texas-idUSBRE91F06F20130216
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