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Louisiana fugitive Greg Lawson laughs as he’s captured in Mexico after 32 years on the run
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0:31Now PlayingA Louisiana fugitive who spent half his life on the run was captured in Mexico on Tuesday — and laughed as he was cuffed more than three decades after he was convicted for trying to murder a lifelong friend.
Greg Lawson, 63, was dragged back onto US soil after a tipster reported seeing him in Huatulco, a resort region in the southwestern portion of the country, the FBI announced.
Video showed the attempted murderer — dressed in a khaki shirt and flowy green pants — laughing before being placed in handcuffs for the first time in 32 years.
He has been on the agency’s wanted list since May 1991, when he vanished from the rural community of Ringgold, home to a diminishing population of 1,370.
Lawson had been found guilty of attempted second-degree murder for trying to gun down his childhood friend in what the community remembers as the biggest shootout Ringgold had ever seen, KTBS reported.
Lawson, then 31, had tried to run his victim Seth Garlington’s car off the road moments earlier, leading to a fight in the gas station parking lot where guns were then drawn.
Garlington survived his injuries, leading to Lawson’s conviction, but Lawson skipped town before the jury could hand down the verdict.
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