COLUMBUS — An 18-year-old jail inmate appearing in district court Friday morning for a hearing on whether he is competent to act as his own attorney broke away from security and briefly escaped before being recaptured in an alley outside the courthouse.
Courtroom security deputies captured William Taylor in an alley on the north side of the Platte County Courthouse shortly before 10 a.m. after the leg-shackled inmate kneed an officer while walking into the courtroom before briefly escaping.
Witness reports indicated Taylor quickly left the second-floor courtroom through the public-access door and, after being delayed by a probation office client showing up for an appointment, raced down the stairs and escaped through the courthouse’s 26th Avenue exit.
Taylor, who left his plastic jailhouse flip-flops in the courtroom, was recaptured barefoot in the alley between 14th and 15th streets.
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