RANKIN CO., Miss. (WLBT) - Several employees are on administrative leave following an inmate escaping from Central Mississippi Correctional Facility.
“We are placing several employees on administrative leave pending disciplinary action, including management as the investigation continues,” said Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain.
As the search continues for Michael Wilson, more details have come from his escape from CMCF, including that he escaped a day earlier than authorities previously thought.
Wilson, 51, escaped prison this weekend. He’s currently serving two life sentences for beating two men to death in Biloxi and Gulfport in 2014.
Richland Police spokesperson Allison Clarke says officers were notified of a bleeding man at O’Reilly Auto Parts on Highway 49 who was refusing to leave on Saturday evening.
Wilson, who had not yet been identified, told officers he had been in an accident in Jackson and asked to be taken to a homeless shelter. Police instead took him to University of Mississippi Medical Center because of the heavy bleeding.
Wilson had given police an alias; Richland police weren’t informed the man they took to the hospital was Wilson until Sunday afternoon.
Wilson had previously been to UMMC before being spotted at O’Reilly. After escaping CMCF on Saturday morning, he told a resident that he had been in a motorcycle crash and convinced the man to take him to the hospital.
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