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| Stabbing suspect, 3 other teens escape Macomb facility |
| By The Detroit News |
| Published: 05/24/2005 |
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A former Romeo High School student awaiting sentencing on an attempted murder charge in the knife attack on his girlfriend was one of four youths who escaped from the Macomb Juvenile Justice Center this weekend, Macomb County (Mich.) Sheriff Mark Hackel said Monday. Eric Schorling and three accomplices escaped from the youth home about 10 a.m. Sunday by breaking through a gymnasium door into a section of the center being remodeled, Hackel said. All four youths were arrested a short time later in the Clinton Grove Cemetery on Cass and Dunham in Clinton Township, less than a mile from the youth home. The escape comes as the justice center, formerly known as the Macomb County Youth Home, attempts to deal with a series of problems, including allegations of ineffective leadership, abuse of some inmates and lack of training of personnel. A search is under way for a new director. The youths are being held in the Macomb County Jail and will be charged as adults with escape, said James Langtry, chief of operations for the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office. Langtry said the four suspects will probably be arraigned today in 41-B District Court in Clinton Township. Schorling, who will be 17 next month, faces a minimum prison term of 81 months in jail in the knife attack in December on his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend at Romeo High School. Police said Schorling plunged an 8-inch blade into the girl's back, narrowly missing her heart. He will be sentenced June 29 by Macomb Circuit Judge Peter Maceroni. Hackel said an internal investigation is under way in connection with the escape and it's possible justice center personnel could face disciplinary action. |
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