Authorities continued hunting over the weekend for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana lockup in a cinematic fashion by using tied bed sheets to scale a wall and then lower themselves from jail’s roof.
First, the inmates reportedly removed concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall and then employed the sheets in the escape from Landry Parish jail in Opelousas, a parish seat of about 15,000 residents located about 130 miles northwest of New Orleans.
Police were pursuing leads on Saturday to locate 24-year-old Keith Eli, who has been at large for three days, sheriff’s office spokesman Mark LeBlanc told the Associated Press.
Eli had been jailed on a charge of second-degree murder.
“We would prefer that he surrender himself
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