U.S. marshals believe that the D.C. inmate who escaped during his father’s funeral has returned to the Washington area and are asking for the public’s assistance in bringing him in.

In April 2008, William Brice was awaiting trail on charges that he shot a man in Northeast Washington and for violating his parole on a previous weapons conviction. A D.C. Superior Court judge allowed Brice to be released from jail for three hours in the custody of one of Brice’s two public defense attorneys to attend his father’s funeral service at Pope’s Funeral Home at 2617 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. That’s when Brice made his getaway and he’s not been seen since.