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| Two Tenn. Prison Escapees Captured |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/02/2001 |
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Two maximum-security prisoners with homemade knives overpowered officers, stole their uniforms and escaped Friday on their way to a hearing on a 1998 escape, officials said. They were captured a few hours later. Four officers were left handcuffed to a railing in a tunnel from the city jail to the courthouse. The inmates took two of the officers' uniforms and escaped wearing them, Correction Commissioner Donal Campbell said. Campbell said one of the inmates told the officers: 'We don't ever want to hurt anyone. Just get out of our way.' The inmates were captured a few blocks away crouching in bushes and did not resist arrest, police said. Their T-shirts bore the words 'maximum security.' The prisoners were identified as Lyle Van Ulzen, 35, and Billy Coffelt, 47. Van Ulzen was serving 65 years for two counts of second-degree murder and assault; Coffelt was serving a life sentence for armed robbery, assault with intent to murder and a 1992 escape. They were headed to a court appearance for a 1998 escape from the Riverbend maximum-security prison in Nashville, officials said. |
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