CHICAGO (AP) — A man convicted of murder who escaped from an eastern Illinois prison by beating and choking a guard into unconsciousness and stealing his uniform, keys and SUV has been captured in Chicago, ending a nearly three-day manhunt.
Kamron T. Taylor fled on foot as Chicago police officers responding to a call of a suspicious person approached him in the South Side neighborhood of Calumet Heights Friday night. Officers caught up with him after a few blocks and found him with a
loaded handgun. He is being held on weapons charges until he can be turned over to the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office, Chicago police said.
"I think I can speak for ... everyone who's been involved: tired, I guess is the word," Kankakee County Sheriff Timothy Bukowski told reporters Saturday in summing up the frenzied search.
Taylor, 23, escaped before dawn Wednesday from the Jerome Combs Detention Center in Kankakee after lying in wait for a guard making 3 a.m. rounds and then attacking him. Wearing the guard's uniform, Taylor fooled officers in a master control room into buzzing him through three security doors before driving off. He ditched the SUV a few miles away, and authorities haven't pieced together how he got to Chicago.
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