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Escaped inmate accused in police stabbing recaptured
By savannahnow.com- Meg Kinnard & Jeffery Collins
Published: 12/09/2016

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An inmate serving a life sentence who escaped from a maximum-security South Carolina prison and stabbed a police officer while on the run has been recaptured after a locked door stopped him from getting into a school, authorities said Thursday.

Michael Allen Williamson, 47, was caught around 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Northside Christian Academy in Lexington about 13 hours after the stabbing, investigators said.

A parent at a nearby different school saw Williamson dressed in all black with a black stocking mask and told the police officer at the school. She tried to question Williamson and he ran, Lexington Police Maj. Matt Davis said.

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