Shreveport Teen Escapes State Custody for 3rd Time

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Authorities searched Tuesday for a Louisiana teenager serving a sentence of juvenile life who escaped for the third time and is on the run.

The Caddo Parish District Lawyer’s Workplace, in a information launch, mentioned the 17-year-old escaped Monday whereas in transport from the Acadiana Middle for Youth in Avoyelles Parish to a hospital for remedy to accidents on his hand, when he attacked the driving force and fled.

“That is his third escape from Workplace of Juvenile Justice custody, and his second escape by escaping via hospitals,” mentioned Wilbert Pryor, particular assistant to District Lawyer James E. Stewart Sr. “His final escape was from Brentwood Hospital throughout an Oct. 31, 2021, New Orleans Saints Monday Evening soccer recreation. He was found November 9, 2021 in a stolen automobile close to Canton, Texas.”

{The teenager} was serving time for a number of felonies, together with armed theft, aggravated flight from an officer, unlawful carrying of a weapon, escape, housebreaking of an inhabited dwelling and unlawful possession of stolen issues. His jail time period was scheduled to finish Jan. 4, 2026.

He’s serving the utmost youth sentence for a Nov. 9, 2018, theft of a gasoline station and its clerk, utilizing an AK-47 automated rifle, and for his involvement within the Nov. 4, 2018, killing of pizza deliveryman Lester McGee, for which he pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit armed theft.

Pryor mentioned the inmate dedicated each offenses whereas solely 13-years-old, “which prevented the District Lawyer from prosecuting him in grownup courtroom.”

Pryor mentioned {the teenager} must be thought-about armed and intensely harmful. Anybody with data on his whereabouts is requested to name Shreveport Polie or Caddo-Shreveport CrimeStoppers.

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