ID - Correction officers ambushed & shot during planned inmate escape from hospital, Boise, 20 Mar 2024

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Police are searching for an escaped inmate and another person after corrections officers in Boise, Idaho, were shot early Wednesday in what officials described as a planned escape.

The incident began at 2:15 a.m. local time when state Corrections Department officers were attempting to transfer inmate Skylar Meade back to the corrections facility, according to Boise police. Meade had been taken to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center for treatment.

As the officers were preparing to take Meade back, a suspect later identified as Nicholas Umphenour fired at them, police said. Two of the officers were shot, one with non-life-threatening injuries, while the other was stable in critical condition.

Meade and the other person fled and were last seen in a gray four-door sedan, possibly a Honda Civic, police said. Meade was described as a 31-year-old white man, 5 feet, 6 inches tall, with two face tattoos: the No. 1 on one side and 11 on the other.

Boise officers responded to reports of an active shooter at the hospital, which was placed on a modified lockdown, the department said. One of the officers fired at an armed person at the hospital entrance, who was later identified as a Corrections Department officer.

Idaho inmate escapes after planned breakout from hospital, 2 officers shot in 'brazen' ambush

Boise's police chief Winegar described the shooting as a “violent and apparently coordinated attack” to facilitate the inmate's escape.

www.nbcnews.com

Update: Officers continue to search for shooting suspects, Three IDOC officers injured | News | City of Boise

www.cityofboise.org

Thanks to @fred&edna

 

[Clearsky]

Police looking for escaped inmate and other suspect after shooting at Boise hospital - East Idaho News

BOISE — Law enforcement officers across Idaho are looking for two suspects after a shooting at a Boise hospital. According to a news release from the Boise Police Department, two people are traveling in a gray four-door sedan, possibly a Honda Civic with Idaho plates, pictured above. One...

www.eastidahonews.com

One suspect, pictured above, is escaped IDOC inmate Skylar Meade. The other suspect is currently unidentified, but both are known to be armed and dangerous.

 

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Meade was described as a 31-year-old white man, 5 feet, 6 inches tall, with two face tattoos: the No. 1 on one side and 11 on the other.

Thankfully, he is easy to recognize.

Thinking the best approach might be relatively costly: Offer an immediate and perhaps equally important "no questions asked" award of sufficient amount that would tempt even his family, friends and associates to turn him in.

 

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BREAKING: escaped inmate Skylar Meade and accomplice Nicholas Umphenour FOUND in Twin Falls, ID, according to
@BoisePD

Police are investigating two homicides in Clearwater and Nez Pierce counties they believe are related to this incident


BPD says Umphenour and Meade taken into custody after short car chase, no shots fired or “extensive use of force” used in this situation

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770915645041123435

https://twitter.com/x/status/1770916661148692668

 

[Clearsky]

White supremacist prison gang member, alleged accomplice might have killed 2: Cops

A white supremacist prison gang member and his suspected accomplice accused of helping him escape a hospital are suspected of killing two people, police said.

lawandcrime.com

A white supremacist prison gang member and his suspected accomplice accused of helping him escape from a hospital in Idaho in an attack that wounded three corrections officers are suspected of killing two people during their 36 hours on the run from law enforcement, authorities said.

 

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*The Missoula Police Department has confirmed an inmate and his accomplice who escaped from a hospital in Boise on Wednesday were seen in Missoula. Escaped Boise suspects seen in Missoula captured in Idaho

 

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ISP says the two north Idaho homicide victims are 83 y/o James Mauney, killed while walking his dog in Juliaetta, and 72 y/o Gerald Henderson, who may have known the suspects at one time.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1771226305419268161

 

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More background in this article:

Officials say two deaths possibly linked to escaped Idaho inmate

James L Mauney was walking his dogs when he was shot and killed, and Gerald Don Henderson was found dead outside his cabin

www.theguardian.com

"Thompson said that he and Henderson met Umphenour about a decade ago through another “neighbor kid” they had taken in. Umphenour, who was then in his late teens, was not getting along with his father, Thompson said, and he stayed at the cabin with Henderson and Thompson for about a month.

Living with Umphenour was frightening, Thompson said, because he “would always talk about shooting people”. The couple eventually kicked him out."

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"About a month ago, Umphenour – fresh out of prison, where he served time on theft and gun convictions – trudged through deep snow to spend an hour at the cabin with Henderson, drinking coffee and talking. Henderson felt uneasy about the visit and wasn’t sure why Umphenour had come, Thompson said.

On Wednesday, when Thompson learned that Umphenour had been linked to Meade’s escape from the hospital, he grew worried and called the sheriff’s office to request that deputies check in on Henderson.

Police found him dead outside his home, where they also found what may have been the escaped prisoner’s shackles, Clearwater county coroner Dennis Fuller said on Friday."

 

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Deaths of dog walker, 83, and resident of a remote cabin possibly tied to escaped Idaho inmate - East Idaho News

(AP) – Authorities said Friday they believe the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin are connected to the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice after a Boise hospital ambush. The escaped...

www.eastidahonews.com

Recently, Meade had been held in solitary confinement because officials deemed him a security risk.

The Aryan Knights prison gang formed in the mid-1990s in Idaho. In court documents federal prosecutors described it as a “scourge” within the state’s prison system.

“The hate-fueled gang engages in many types of criminal activity and casts shadows of intimidation, addiction, and violence over prison life,” prosecutors wrote.

 

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Murder victims in Idaho white supremacist prison break ID’d as men aged 83 and 72: Latest

Police investigating whether white supremacist fugitives are responsible for killings, one of which may have been a carjacking

news.yahoo.com

The identities of the two men who were possibly murdered in connection with an Idaho prison escape have been released by officials.

The bodies of James L Mauney, 83, from the Juliaetta area and Gerald Don Henderson, 72 were found as officials searched for 31-year-old Skylar Meade and Nicholas Umphenour, an inmate and a man who had been recently released.

Mr Henderson died from an apparent gunshot wound but his manner of death is pending an autopsy investigation. Mr Mauney was carjacked by the men as he was walking his dogs. His body was found near his home.

 

[Cool Cats]

Idaho prisoner transports: What we now know about the Boise hospital ambush

Skylar Meade and Nicholas Umphenour were on the run for about 36 hours before being caught in the Twin Falls area.

news.yahoo.com