The Webb County District Attorney’s Office will be seeking the death penalty against a man accused of killing a family of four.
Samuel Enrique Lopez is charged with capital murder of multiple persons, capital murder of a person younger than 10-years-old and aggravated sexual assault of a child.
According to the indictment, Lopez is accused of fatally stabbing 18-year-old Lesly Hernandez, 33-year-old Zayra Marlen Fuentes-Reyes and 12-year-old Pedro Cruz. Lopez is also accused of sexually assaulting two-year-old Julian Saracho with a blunt object and suffocating the minor.
