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| Escaped inmates die in crash |
| By Lafayette Daily Advertiser |
| Published: 12/16/2003 |
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Two of the four victims in a deadly Interstate 10 crash near Jennings, La. on Sunday afternoon were escaped inmates, Jennings police said Monday. Police have identified the victims of the crash that occurred when a sport utility vehicle rear-ended an 18-wheeler. All of the victims were riding in the SUV. Capt. Winston Guillory of the Jennings Police Department identified Scott V. Hoot, 42, as the SUV driver, and said Mark C. Cleveland, 31, was in the front passenger seat. Hoot had escaped from Morehouse Parish Correctional Center on Aug. 18, and Cleveland had escaped from Livingston Parish Sheriff's Department, authorities said. The other two victims, Demetrice Martin of Conroe, Texas, and Joseph McDowell, 19, of Church Point, were sitting in the back seat. Guillory said that he did not know whether the victims knew each other, but the mother of one of the victims said that she believed they were traveling to Baton Rouge. According to Mike Tubbs, chief deputy of the Morehouse Sheriff's Department, Hoot had nearly completed serving a 10-year sentence on auto theft charges at the facility and was a trustee working in the auto body shop. Tubbs said Hoot and another inmate escaped from the facility Aug. 18. "He left in the afternoon," he said. "He just jumped on a slow-moving train." Tubbs said that deputies with the Morehouse Sheriff's Department conducted a search and stopped several trains, but failed to locate Hoot. |
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