A convicted murderer who escaped from a Mississippi prison on Saturday was captured Tuesday after the stolen car he was in ran out of gas.
Sheriff’s Department Officers Harrison County Police captured Michael Wilson after the blue Buick LeSabre from 2007 that he hijacked failed to start due to a gas shortage.
Wilson had escaped from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility on foot after being mistakenly placed in a minimum security area instead of the maximum security area where he was supposed to be held.
The criminal jumped a barbed wire fence from 12 feet in the morning hours.
The man, who was cut by the material, requested an ambulance under the lie that he was an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who had a motorcycle accident and was bleeding. Wilson managed to get him transferred to a hospital.
After leaving the hospital, he went to an auto parts store where he began to bleed profusely, for which the staff called the Police.
Wilson used another name and told agents that he had been in a car accident.
The man he was again transferred to the University of Mississippi Medical Center. It is not clear how the institution’s staff and law enforcement officers did not consider the man’s attitude suspicious.
Finally, Wilson was arrested in Harrison County after a woman reported that the man had assaulted her in Jackson County before taking her car.
Burl Cain, commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, questioned the lack of immediate action by the authorities to prevent the prisoner from escaping, as well as to identify and arrest the fugitive.
“The timeline is too long and it is unacceptable”, declared Cain, while pointing out that several employees face disciplinary action in relation to the facts.
“We make mistakes”, he acknowledged . “We are going to guarantee the public and so on
that we will not make those mistakes again because we have taken corrective action”, assured the spokesperson.