Authorities in Virginia are searching for two escaped inmates, including one man found guilty of second-degree murder.
Jabar Taylor, 20, and Rashad Williams, 18, escaped from the Chesterfield County juvenile detention center after choking a security guard on Monday night. The two men used a cord to strangle the staff member, who lost consciousness before the men escaped.
Taylor, a 5-foot-9 black man serving a 50-year sentence, was convicted in Fredericksburg Circuit Court for the murder of two men stabbed to death outside the Greenbrier Shopping Center in December 2015 when he was just 15 years old. Williams was serving time after being found guilty of malicious wounding and robbery at a 7-Eleven when he was 16.
Both men were scheduled to be transferred to adult prisons when they turned 21. Upon escaping from the detention center, security cameras showed the two men get into a waiting vehicle, leading authorities to believe they may have received help from outside the center.
Officials at the detention center say this is the first escape in more than 20 years and that investigators are working to determine how the men were able to overpower the guard.
