Two prisoners escaped a correctional center in Philadelphia, including a teen who was accused of killing another man outside the same facility more than two.
A search is underway for two prisoners, one of them charged in multiple homicides, who escaped over the weekend from a correctional center in Philadelphia without anyone noticing for almost 19 hours, officials said.
Teen charged in killing of just-released inmate, 3 others
May 2, 2021
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) A Philadelphia teenager has been charged in four homicides, including a Christmas Eve slaying caught live on social media and what authorities believe was the mistaken-identity killing of a man gunned down on prison grounds shortly after he was released on bail.
Police said the 16-year-old had been arrested March 20 and charged in the Dec. 24 killing of 20-year-old Dyewou Nyshawn Scruggs, who was found with multiple gunshots on a west Philadelphia street and died less than 15 minutes before Christmas Day.
The following day, he was charged in a March 11 quadruple shooting in west Philadelphia that had claimed the lives of 24-year-old Naquon Smith and 16-year-old Tamir Brown and critically wounded two 19-year-old men.