The last of 10 inmates who fled from a New Orleans jail in a daring escape has been located after over six months on the run.
Derrick Groves, a convicted killer, was reportedly cornered in a standoff with police in Atlanta on Wednesday.
He has been linked to four killings, and authorities warned that he may be violent or attempt to locate witnesses in his murder trial while on the lam.
Groves was the final inmate to be caught among those who escaped through a wall behind a prison toilet in May.
The group’s escape captured headlines as they taunted prison staff by writing ‘too easy’ on the wall as they slipped out of a cell toilet block before footage showed them sprinting to freedom.
After breaching the wall at the Orleans Justice Center, the escapees scaled another wall and managed to cross the interstate.
The other inmates who were captured before Groves were named as Corey Boyd, Dkenan Dennis, Jermaine Donald, Antoine Massey, Robert Moody, Kendell Myles, Gary Price, Leo Tate and Lenton Vanburen.
During Groves’ time on the run, his girlfriend and former prison guard Darriana Burton, 28, was charged with ‘conspiracy to commit simple escape’ after she allegedly helped the group flee.
Derrick Groves, the last of 10 inmates who fled from a New Orleans jail in a daring escape has been located after over six months on the run
Groves was the final inmate to be caught among those who escaped through a wall behind a prison toilet in May
Authorities said the inmates broke through the law behind a toilet, and taunted cops as they wrote ‘too easy lol’ on the hole they escaped through
Groves was accused for attempted second-degree murder at 17, but was eventually found not guilty, according to court records.
Then, he was convicted for the second time last year of two charges on second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder for a 2018 shooting on Mardi Gras.
Groves was found to have be one of two gunmen who opened fire on ‘what should have been joyous Mardi Gras family gathering’ with AK-47-style assault rifles, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
