you said that this is the bicycle bandit guy in last week? that is what i have been informed. is it normal for someone like this to be watched my private security and not fairfax county police? the federal authorities are in charge of his custody, so it this time i cannot speak on behalf of federal authorities and the contract for security, but he was guarded by private security. did he fire the shot or did the security guard fire the shot? we will update you as soon as we get the answer. is he on the ground? we have conducted several searches of the building. right now we need to perform second and third searches of the building. we don t have any information that he has fled the area at this time. we are reviewing security cameras to make a determination as to whether or not he exited the building. we are locking down the entire area presuming that he did escape while we are searching. we had information about a girl who was possibly seen. do you know anyt
locked down for hours, employees shuttled in from a nearby school. this is my first day here at fairfax. we re always ready for stuff like this. we train for stuff like. this. reporter: at some pint assaye cousinned point assaye dumped the camry and got some clothes to cover his gown. for nine hours hundreds of heavily armed fairfax county police, state police, fbi, u.s. marshals hunted him converging on every possible sighting. a little scary. you look out your window and see all these police cars with policemen and their big guns. a little frightening, yeah, especially for my wife. reporter: how he ended up on a d.c. bus still a mystery. the u.s. marshal says he s reviewing procedures that have security for prisoners, federal prisoners, handed off to private security guards at the hospital, he wants to prevent this from ever happening again. live from u.s. federal court in alexandria, bruce leshan, wusa9. you can view all of today s court documents on our webs
like escape began. reporter: i can t get over how much like an action movie this entire scene today was when an alleged bank robbery known as the bicycle bandit was in the hospital behind me after police say he tried to kill high pressure system in jail late last week. kill himself in jail late last week. he overpowered two security guards, stole a gun and left the hospital in barefoot with nothing more than a hospital gown. he was shackled. police were at a loss today to explain how 42-year-old wossen assaye wrestled a gun from a private security guard and slipped out of the hospital unseen. i don t know exactly what restraints were on him at the time, but he was on the hospital gurney bed. reporter: investigators now believe assaye hid in the trunk of a woman s car and popped up in her back seat as she drove through annandale. the woman was so startled by the stow-away carjacker she crashed into preston hall s front yard smashing his wife s car. you don t expect a
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