Three correctional officers were shot early Wednesday when a gunman broke a prisoner out of a Boise, Idaho hospital.
A manhunt is under way for Skylar Meade, a prisoner serving a 20-year sentence for shooting at a sheriff during a high-speed car chase. Meade was busted out of hospital in a night-time raid by an armed accomplice. The attack occurred at 2:15 a.m. as Idaho Department of Corrections officers prepared to bring Meade back to prison from Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise
Three correctional officers were shot and wounded in a chaotic firefight in the darkness – one of them hit by a police officer responding to the emergency call.
One officer is in “critical but stable condition” and the second has “serious but non-life-threatening injuries,” police said. The officer who was accidentally shot by responding police “was not seriously injured.”
The suspects are considered armed and dangerous and escaped in a gray sedan, possibly a Honda Civic, with Idaho license plates. Idaho State Police described Meade as a 5-foot-6 white man with brown hair and hazel eyes, with tattoos of a “D” on his right arm, a clown or skull face across his chest, and “product of my environment” written across his collarbone. Meade also has facial tattoos on his forehead and cheeks. Police asked anyone with information to call Ada County Dispatch at (208) 377-6790.
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Follow up from CNN:
An Idaho inmate and the accomplice who helped him escape from a hospital visit on Wednesday by shooting at state corrections officers were captured Thursday, ending a 36-hour manhunt, Boise Police Chief Ron Winegar said during a news conference.
The inmate, Skylar Meade, and the alleged shooter, Nicholas Umphenour, were captured around 2 p.m. local time in Twin Falls, Idaho, two hours away from where Meade escaped as he was discharged from Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, authorities said.