A man involved in a Sunday robbery has escaped from police.
Terrell Harper, 21, faces charges of robbing a man inside First Tennessee Bank’s ATM lobby on East 23rd Street, according to Chattanooga police. The victim was robbed of money he had just withdrew from an ATM, and Harper forced him to withdraw $200 more.
Police said they caught Harper as he was fleeing on a bicycle.
Harper was taken to the Amnicola Highway police station, questioned, placed in a hallway and then handcuffed, according to police. When the officer who was watching Harper stepped into an investigator’s office to answer a question, he ran from the building while still in handcuffs.
A perimeter was set up, and a lengthy search for Harper conducted by Chattanooga police, the Chattanooga Fire Department and the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office was unsuccessful.