GBI: 5 Georgia inmates escape, prompting manhunt

Five inmates escaped from Pulaski County Law Enforcement Center, prompting a “Blue Alert” and a manhunt, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Saturday connected societal media.

GBI said each 5 inmates person “violent history” and 2 are execution suspects.

The 5 men were identified arsenic Dennis Penix Jr., Lewis Wendell Evans, Brandon Pooler, Tyree Williams and Tyree Mantan Jackson. The societal media station did not bespeak the charges for each man.

Williams, 33, is described arsenic 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighing 160 pounds with brownish eyes. Evans, 22, is 5 feet, 2 inches tall, 122 pounds with brownish eyes. Jackson, 27, is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, 176 pounds with brownish eyes. Pooler, 24, is 6 feet, 1 inch tall, 215 pounds, with brownish eyes. Penix, 28, is 5 feet, 9 inches tall, 165 pounds with brownish eyes.

Investigators said they escaped the installation astir 11:15 p.m. Friday and took a achromatic 2015 KIA Sedona van with Georgia tag CMP8628. GBI said the men are “in possession of 2 Tasers.”

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If you spot them, DO NOT approach, but telephone 911, authorities said. If you cognize wherever the men mightiness be, you tin telephone GBI’s extremity enactment astatine 1-800-597-8477 oregon the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office astatine 478-783-1212.

Pulaski County is successful mediate Georgia, eastbound of I-75 and southbound of Macon and Warner Robins.

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