DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate with a violent history of eluding law enforcement is on the run again.
The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office says 30-year-old John Kaleb Gillespie escaped from the jail in Decatur on Sunday.
Sheriff’s officials say another inmate helped Gillespie climb over a recreation yard wall.
Officials say Gillespie tried to run over an Alabama state trooper in Lawrence County in November 2018 as officers fired on his truck.
Gillespie eluded officers other times before he was captured at a Decatur house following a five-hour standoff.