(AP) – Audrain County authorities say one of three parolees
who escaped from a halfway house in central Missouri was found dead after a long
standoff with law enforcement.
Audrain County Sheriff Maj. Matt Oller said Thursday that the three men
escaped Wednesday from the home in Fulton.
They then allegedly stole a Missouri Department of Transportation vehicle,
robbed a bank in Martinsburg and led officers on a chase that lasted nearly an
hour and included shots being fired at officers. Oller says after the vehicle
crashed into a home in Montgomery City, two suspects – Cecil Golden and David
Franklin – were captured.
The third person, 23-year-old Wade Sargent, ran into a nearby home that was
unoccupied. After the standoff, Sargent was found dead of an apparent
self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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