“The Great Escape 2” may be the title of the upcoming film about this incredible New York story. It must be said that the scenario has everything of a Hollywood production. A prisoner made a daring escape from a Manhattan neighborhood hospital on Wednesday, rappelling down the building with towels tied together before fleeing in a taxi, police say and concordant sources, reports the American press on Thursday.
Yenchun Chen, 44, is still at large a handful of hours after escaping from Mount Sinai Hospital in Gramercy Park at around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday while in the custody of the Administration Department. prison, said the new york police in a press release.
The fugitive, who was arrested on July 31 for drug possession, was hospitalized last Friday following a heart problem, according to a spokesman for the Department of Corrections. At the end of Wednesday afternoon, a member of the hospital staff escorted him to take him to take his shower, in a room other than his room where he was under medical and police surveillance.
Flown out the shower window
Authorities say Chen then asked for several towels to take his shower. When the officers went to check on him, after a long wait, they noticed that the bathroom window was open and the inmate was nowhere to be found.
The agents on duty quickly realized that Chen had abseiled down the building, thanks to a makeshift rope made up of several towels. He managed to reach the second floor, where he landed on a roof housing the air conditioning unit. “When I learned that a prisoner had escaped through the window, I was shocked,” said a nurse at ABC New York.
He then simply climbed down a ladder to the street and jumped into a “yellow cab” before fleeing south of the city on 2nd Avenue, police sources told US media.
The fugitive is described by the police as a man around 1.80m tall, weighing 120kg, with brown eyes and black hair, sporting tattoos on his left arm and hand. Local police released photos of Yenchun Chen when he was last seen running away from the hospital. He was dressed in a white t-shirt and beige pants. He also seemed to still wear his hospital bracelet on his wrist.
2023-08-10 11:28:00
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