Escaped White Supremacist and Accomplice Busted After Violent Prison Break: Cops
Idaho police on Thursday caught a white supremacist prisoner and the man who helped him escape from custody at a hospital a day earlier, authorities said, with investigators now trying to establish if the pair are responsible for two killings reported after the violent breakout.
Skylar Meade, the 31-year-old fugitive inmate, and 28-year-old Nicholas Umpehnour, the alleged gunman who shot two corrections officers at the Boise hospital where Meade escaped, were arrested in the city of Twin Falls on Thursday afternoon after a short car chase, according to the Boise Police Department. The men had been housed together in prison at times and were both members of the same gang—the Aryan Knights—authorities said.
Two homicides, in Nez Perce County and Clearwater County, in which both victims were men, are now being investigated in connection with the escape, with police saying shackles were found at one of the crime scenes.