Two of the four teenagers who broke out of a juvenile detention center in Nashville over the weekend have been recaptured.
Calvin Howse, 15, and 16-year-old Decorrius Wright, who is facing a murder charge, were taken into custody Tuesday evening by the Juvenile Crime Task Force in Madison, Tenn., the Metropolitan Police Department announced in a tweet around 9 p.m. They were found outside a condominium complex about an hour earlier, reportedly by officers following up on a tip regarding the wanted teens.
Howse was previously arrested in November for auto theft and gun possession while Wright is accused of killing local musician Kyle Yorlets back in February.
Wright and another four teens — all between the ages of 12 and 16 — were charged with criminal homicide after they allegedly robbed the 24-year-old of his wallet and then shot him when he refused to turn over his car keys.
The pair of teens escaped from the Juvenile Detention Center in Downtown Nashville on Saturday along with two others, 17-year-old Morris Marsh and 17-year-old Brandon Caruthers, who is on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted List.
Caruthers is being charged as an adult in an armed robbery case from August last year, police said.
“He should be considered armed and dangerous,” according to a flyer from TBI.
The agency is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to his arrest.
Marsh is accused in the April killing of 19-year-old Charles Easley, according to authorities.
Both Caruthers and Marsh remain on the run and are believed to be in the Nashville area.
Juvenile Crime Task Force Supervisor Lt. Blaine Whited emphasized that the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department “continues to take an all hands on deck approach as we work to locate and apprehend the two remaining escaped teens.”
Authorities in a press release earlier this week said all four teens busted out of the detention center shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday while they were on a work detail. They “managed to get onto an elevator and used staff protocols to ride to the ground floor where they went through a series of doors and exited to the outside.”
About 35 minutes passed before police were notified and the incident is currently under investigation.
The arrests of Wright and Howse came just hours after authorities released security footage that shows all four teens racing through the hall and out the front door of the facility. Video from outside the building shows them stripping off their neon work vests as they continue to flee, unchallenged.
White also called on the public and anyone who knows the two remaining suspects to contact authorities immediately with any information in the case.
