California authorities recaptured an escaped murder suspect on Sunday, one of three inmates who broke out of the George Bailey Detention Facility on Otay Mesa, a sheriff's lieutenant said.
Mark Estrada, 18, was found hiding near a water treatment facility below the Regional Firearms Training Center at about 2 a.m. by Border Patrol agents, Lt. Phil Brust said.
The site where he was found is not far from the jail, authorities said. Estrada was being held on a murder count and another count of attempted murder in connection with the shooting deaths last January of a 16-year-old boy and a 28-year-old man in National City, Brust said.
Agents used night vision goggles to track Estrada as he tried to move through the area, Brust said. The three men allegedly escaped from the facility through a fence in the recreation yard on the south side of the property at about 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Brust said.
An employee at an adjacent business spotted the three inmates running through some bushes and into a canyon about four miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border, Brust said.
Deputies surrounded the area and blocked all traffic into the area, Brust said.
Two other men were still at large on Sunday afternoon. They were identified as Joe Morales, 24, who was being held on two counts of murder in the April 2004 shooting death of Imperial Beach surfer Ryner Girdner, 19; and George Munoz, who was being held on three counts of committing a lewd act on a child younger than 14.
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