A D.C. inmate charged in a shootout with police admitted Thursday that he hid a handcuff key in a bandage, then assaulted an officer while escaping last March. Terrence Moore Jr., 29, jumped from a prison van in the United Medical Center parking lot on March 11, 2010, when he arrived for treatment of a wrist injury. He threw a gate from a prisoner cage into a jail guard and ran away, court records say. Moore was apprehended later that night.

Moore pleaded guilty to escape and assault charges in federal court in D.C. His plea agreement says prosecutors and defense attorneys have agreed Moore should receive a 12-year prison sentence for both those charges and a separate PCP case.