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| Mich. police looking for escaped murderer |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/05/2004 |
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A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan state prison remained at large Sunday, authorities said. Ervin Brown, 41, escaped late Friday from the Mound Correctional Facility in Detroit while on a trash detail in a maintenance building, Corrections Department spokesman Leo Lalonde said. The Lansing native shimmied through a crawl space and into another building, then climbed the prison fence and squeezed through an opening in the razor wire on top of it. Brown, who is 5-3 and weighs 130 pounds, apparently took advantage of his small stature, Lalonde said. The 12-year-old prison, with a capacity of 1,051 inmates, was briefly locked down Saturday while investigators retraced Brown's escape route, Lalonde said. Brown's mother, who lives in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, told police she hadn't seen or heard from her son, Michigan State Police Lt. Harold Love told WDIV-TV in Detroit. Brown was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, armed robbery and other felony crimes. He was convicted in January 1990 in the fatal shooting of Martin Rodriguez, 23, during an April 1989 robbery attempt. Fred Rodriguez said in 1989 that his son was on welfare and had $8 on him when he was killed, the Lansing State Journal reported. Brown also was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting and robbery of Michigan State University student John Doyle, which occurred five days before Martin Rodriguez was slain. |
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