Samuel Enrique Lopez (pictured) was arrested in connection to the death of of four Texas family members, including a toddler
A man has been accused of killing four members of a Texas family, including a two-year-old toddler, after their bodies were discovered in vacant lots.
Samuel Enrique Lopez, 20, was booked into the Webb County Jail in Laredo on two counts of capital murder, one involving multiple victims and another involving a child younger than age 10. He is being held without bond.
If convicted, Lopez could face life imprisonment without parole or death by lethal injection.
A motive for the slayings or Lopez's connection to the family have not been revealed.
The Laredo Police Department dispatched to the 4500 block of Vanessita Court on April 16 after they received a report of a deceased person at a house.
Officers arrived to find signs of a possible crime scene, but none of the family members were present inside the home.
Officers with the Laredo Police Department (pictured) responded to a report of a dead body in the 500 block of Vanessita Court on Thursday
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ShareKGNS-TV reports that a search of the area unearthed one dead body, prompting authorities to contact the Criminal Investigative Division for assistance.
Three publicly unidentified bodies were found in the vacant life.
After Lopez was identified as a person of interest in the murders, he was brought into police custody for questioning.
This led authorities to another vacant lot in the 4700 block of Arias Court where a toddler's body was discovered about one mile away from the initial crime scene.
Authorities discovered the bodies of three family members buried in a vacant lot near the home
The body of a two-year-old toddler was later discovered in a different lot about one mile from the initial crime scene
Neighbors of the victims were shocked by the brutal crime.
'I do feel bad. I knew the baby. Well, I knew all four of them as my neighbors,' one person said.
'Sad, just sad about what is happening . I don't know why it happened but it is very ugly,' another added.
Laredo experienced a peak in heinous crimes this week as a CBP officer was arrested in connection to the death of a firefighter on Wednesday.
That was the third murder recorded in Laredo this year before Lopez's recent arrest.
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