Listening to traffic on MARCS regarding a prison escapee. Suspect in officer's slaying escapes from jail
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) -- Police searched Saturday for a man suspected in the slaying of a Chillicothe police officer after he escaped from a jail recreation area using a rope of toilet paper and bed sheets, said Ross County Sheriff Ron Nichols.
John W. Parsons, 35, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the 2005 shooting death of 42-year-old officer Larry Cox.
Nichols said Parsons scaled the wall of the rooftop recreation area at about 1 p.m. and landed on the jail's second-floor roof, from which he jumped onto the roof of a prisoner drop-off area. He then landed in the alley-like drop-off area and fled.
Nichols said the recreation area is surrounded by a wall of about 17 feet, topped with two lines of razor wire.
Nichols said police departments across the state and country have been alerted to look out for the inmate.
Parsons hid the makeshift rope behind a block he had dug out of his cell wall, the sheriff said. He said Parsons had removed the block using a piece of metal from a table in the cell and replaced the block using toothpaste as his mortar.
Steve
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (AP) -- Police searched Saturday for a man suspected in the slaying of a Chillicothe police officer after he escaped from a jail recreation area using a rope of toilet paper and bed sheets, said Ross County Sheriff Ron Nichols.
John W. Parsons, 35, is charged with four counts of aggravated murder in the 2005 shooting death of 42-year-old officer Larry Cox.
Nichols said Parsons scaled the wall of the rooftop recreation area at about 1 p.m. and landed on the jail's second-floor roof, from which he jumped onto the roof of a prisoner drop-off area. He then landed in the alley-like drop-off area and fled.
Nichols said the recreation area is surrounded by a wall of about 17 feet, topped with two lines of razor wire.
Nichols said police departments across the state and country have been alerted to look out for the inmate.
Parsons hid the makeshift rope behind a block he had dug out of his cell wall, the sheriff said. He said Parsons had removed the block using a piece of metal from a table in the cell and replaced the block using toothpaste as his mortar.
Steve
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