Authorities in Louisiana are searching for four inmates who escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail north of New Orleans, and three of the four are suspected of murder, according to the Parish Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff Daniel Edwards said in a statement that they got out through the jail's perimeter fence during recess time in the yard.
Further inspection showed that “a section of the fence was…vulnerable and could easily be maneuvered so that a body of small stature could slide through.”
The three homicide suspects were identified as Omarion Hookfin, 19, of Hammond, La.; Avery Guidry, also 19, of Natalbany, La.; and Travon Johnson, 21, also from Natalbany.
The fourth fugitive was Jamarcus Cyprian, 20, of Amity, La., the office said.
Hookfin, Guidry and Johnson were behind bars for their alleged roles in a 2022 homicide in Hammond, and Cyprian was serving time for armed robbery and weapons charges, the office said, with more time served for allegedly aggravated assault while incarcerated in Catahoula Parish.
CBS New Orleans affiliate WWL-TV reports that the counts against Johnson, Hookfin and Guidry stemmed from a 2022 home invasion in Hammond that left a 33-year-old man and his 12-year-old daughter dead. hospitalized
