Overview
- Detectives and SWAT teams are pursuing leads for 24-year-old Keith Eli, who remains at large three days after the St. Landry Parish Jail escape.
- Johnathan Jevon Joseph, 24, was captured Friday after a tip led investigators to a residence, and he surrendered following a brief chase to a storage shed.
- Joseph Allen Harrington, 26, died by suicide with a hunting rifle after police located him at a home and urged him to come out, according to the Port Barre police chief.
- Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz said the inmates removed mortar and concrete blocks from a deteriorating upper wall and used sheets to scale the exterior; an internal investigation is underway.
- Parish President Jessie Bellard disputes claims of structural decay, calling the jail structurally sound and pointing to understaffing and training shortfalls as the main problems.