2 Escape Bus Heading to Juvenile Detention Center in Bronx (original) (raw)
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- Nov. 3, 1994
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One was 13 years old when he was arrested on charges of fatally shooting a man in Brooklyn last April. The other, who is 16, has been convicted of arson for throwing a firebomb in an apartment building in upper Manhattan.
Both escaped on Tuesday night from a bus transporting them from court to the Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in the South Bronx. One turned himself in last night, but the hunt for the other continued.
Three other teen-agers, charged with crimes from robbery to attempted murder, also surged out of the rear of the bus, which had stopped behind Bronx Family Court to pick up a detainee, but they were quickly captured.
The five had managed to unshackle their legs and hands with a handcuff key, said Commissioner Jose Maldonado of the city's Department of Juvenile Justice.
As two Spofford counselors opened the rear door about 8:35 P.M. to allow a detainee coming out of Bronx Family Court to get into the bus, the five jumped out the back door, knocking down the counselors.
"They surged forward as a group and knocked the two counselors to the ground," said Capt. James Campbell, commander of the major crime section of Bronx detectives.
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