Overview
- Authorities are actively searching for 24-year-old Keith Eli, jailed on an attempted second-degree murder charge, and have urged the public not to approach him and to report tips to local law enforcement or Crime Stoppers.
- Investigators recaptured 24-year-old Johnathan Jevon Joseph after following a tip to a residence, while 26-year-old Joseph Allen Harrington died by suicide when officers located him.
- Officials say the three removed mortar and concrete blocks from a degrading upper wall and used sheets and other items to scale the exterior, drop to a roof, and lower themselves to the ground.
- Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz has launched an internal investigation into the breakout, as Parish President Jessie Bellard asserts the jail is structurally sound and points to understaffing and training issues.
- The incident comes during a year of high-profile Louisiana jailbreaks, including a May escape of 10 New Orleans inmates that required a months-long, multi-state effort to resolve.