How Texas boys’ dream trip ended in family massacre at hands of fugitive
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from US news | The Guardian on (#6005P)
Mark Collins took his four grandsons to his ranch but within hours they fell victim to an escaped prisoner on a murderous rampage
Mark Collins had brought his four grandsons Waylon, Karson, Hudson and Bryson up to his ranch north-west of Houston on Thursday for what sounded like a southern boy's dream: shooting guns, taking boats on big ponds and fishing.
While Collins knew authorities had been looking in the general area for a convicted murderer with ties to a Mexican drug cartel who had broken free from a prison bus three weeks earlier, he may not have known that the fugitive had apparently burglarized a home next door to the ranch, according to family friend David Crain.
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