Louisiana manhunt continues as dangerous inmate charged with attempted murder remains on the run

Louisiana authorities are continuing to hunt for the past of 3 inmates who broke done a deteriorating partition connected Wednesday and escaped a jailhouse astir 130 miles northwest of New Orleans.

The 3 inmates, identified arsenic Keith Eli, 24, of Opelousas, Johnathan Jevon Joseph, 24, of Opelousas, and Joseph Allen Harrington, 26, of Melville, allegedly utilized sheets and different items to standard an outer wall, driblet onto the extortion of the archetypal level and little themselves to the ground, according to a connection from the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office.

Harrington killed himself with a hunting firearm Thursday aft a standoff with constabulary astatine a location successful Port Barre, The Associated Press reported. 

Prior to his escape, St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office records amusement helium was charged with 9 felonies, including location penetration and aggravated battle with a firearm.

Split representation of Keith Eli, left, Johnathan Jevon Joseph and Joseph Allen Harrington, inmates who escaped from a Louisiana prison. (St. Landry Parish Sheriff via Facebook)

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Police nabbed the 2nd escapee, Joseph, the adjacent time pursuing a ft chase. 

Sheriff's officials said a extremity led deputies to a location wherever helium was hiding out, according to the report. He surrendered aft fleeing to a adjacent retention shed.

Joseph, besides a convicted felon, was antecedently charged with main first-degree rape, on with cause and weapon offenses.

The inmates escaped St. Landry Parish Jail Wednesday successful Louisiana. (Google Maps)

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The 3rd missing inmate, Eli, remains missing and is charged with attempted second-degree murder.

"We would similar that helium surrender himself peaceably, but we volition not remainder until helium is captured," St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz wrote successful a connection obtained by the AP.

In May, 10 prisoners escaped a minimum-custody New Orleans jailhouse aft removing a toilet from a partition wrong a compartment and crawling done it.

Video cameras successful the installation captured the brazen escape, with footage showing the radical scaling a fence, utilizing blankets to support themselves from barbed wire, and moving crossed an interstate to a adjacent vicinity wherever they changed clothes.

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Inmates wrote messages including, "To Easy LOL" and "WE INNOCENT," among different things, adjacent the spread they utilized to fly the jail.

The past remaining fugitive, a four-time convicted killer, was arrested 5 months aft the flight pursuing a standoff with authorities successful Atlanta.

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Three jailhouse employees person been placed connected administrative permission pending the result of the investigation, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.

An interior probe has been initiated, and the jailhouse supervisory unit volition beryllium providing a broad report, according to Guidroz.