Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Brian Keely has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter after striking and killing Samuel Sterling with an unmarked SUV in a fast food parking lot during a fugitive chase in Kentwood. Attorney General Dana Nessel cited gross negligence and a high risk of death or great bodily harm in the charges.
One of the three juvenile escapees from the Henley-Young-Patton Juvenile Justice Center in Hinds County, Mississippi, has been captured, while two remain on the run. The captured escapee, 16-year-old Robert Earl Smith, Jr., was apprehended by the Hinds County Sheriff's Office and the US Marshal Fugitive Task Force. The other two escapees, Tayshon Holmes and Jashon Jones, are still at large. Smith is facing a first-degree murder charge, while Jones is indicted on felony counts of armed robbery and auto theft, and Holmes is indicted on an aggravated assault charge.
Ameen Hurst, an inmate who had been held on charges in four slayings, was recaptured by a task force led by federal marshals in Philadelphia after escaping from a Pennsylvania prison earlier this month. Hurst and Nasir Grant escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center on May 7 by cutting a hole in a fence surrounding a recreation yard. Three people, including a fellow inmate, have been charged with aiding the escape, and officials are trying to determine whether anyone else at the prison was involved.