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Kamron Taylor, 23, escaped the Jerome Combs Detention Center
in Kankakee, about 60 miles south of Chicago, and is considered
armed and dangerous, the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office said.
The vehicle, a brown 2012 Chevrolet Equinox, was found Wednesday
morning in a Kankakee neighborhood, sheriff's office spokesman
Ken McCabe said.
The guard is in "pretty bad shape" and is being treated at a
local hospital, McCabe said.
Police were searching door-to-door in Kankakee for Taylor and
area schools were on a precautionary lockdown, according to
local media.
Taylor was convicted in February of fatally shooting Nelson
Williams, 21, during a botched robbery in 2013 and faces up to
life in prison when he is sentenced, according to the Kankakee
Daily Journal.
The newspaper said Taylor tried to escape from the courthouse
after he was found guilty but was detained by deputies and
bailiffs.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Fiona
Ortiz and Mohammad Zargham)
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