US authorities have recaptured a 15-year-old boy who escaped from a Southern California juvenile facility after being charged with killing his mother.
Aamanda Lee Myers
April 13 2019 8:07 PM
US authorities have recaptured a 15-year-old boy who escaped from a Southern California juvenile facility after being charged with killing his mother.
A «very good lead» led officers to a McDonald’s restaurant in Anaheim, where Ike Souzer was taken peacefully into custody on Friday night, Orange County police spokesman Mike Peters said.
The teenager was given medical treatment for puncture wounds on his leg that might have come from his escape, Mr Peters said.
Souzer escaped the Orange County Juvenile Hall, somehow got onto a roof and then jumped a perimeter fence just after midnight, according to Steve Sentman, chief probation officer for the county.
Jail staff spotted Souzer on the roof, then turned on a facility-wide alarm and called the sheriff’s office, he said.
Mr Peters said deputies were «very quick» to respond, but Souzer was able to elude capture.
The sheriff’s office released surveillance footage showing Souzer tending to an apparent wound on his leg shortly after escaping and then walking casually away from the facility.
Dozens of law enforcement personnel, including FBI agents and federal marshals, searched for the boy.
Mr Sentman said it was the first escape from the 434-bed facility in at least two decades and that an investigation is under way into how it happened.
