By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
THE Philadelphia Police Department, on Sunday, confirmed that a teenage murder suspect who escaped from a hospital has been captured.
Stonix News reported that Shane Pryor, 17, who was in custody for a 2020 fatal shooting, escaped from the Juvenile Justice Services Center staff at a hospital.
He has been taken to the Philadelphia Police Department Homicide Unit.
Shane Pryor
According to court documents, Pryor was being held on murder charges for the October 2020 shooting of Tanya Harris.
He was 14 years old at the time of the alleged shooting, which occured in an alleyway in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia.
In December 2023, the courts decided to try Pryor as an adult.
Stonix News reliably gathered that at the time of his arrest, Pryor told police he solicited the victim for sex but that the woman was shot by another man.
Pryor’s attorney, Paul DiMaio, said his client has always maintained his innocence, pointing to the December 2023 court decision as a motive for his escape.
“He may have felt he wasn’t going to get a fair shake,” DiMaio told newsmen.
On Friday, police arrested 18-year-old Michael Diggs, the alleged accomplice of Pryor.
According to the police, Diggs was Pryor’s alleged getaway driver.
Diggs was detained several hours after the escape and now faces multiple felony charges.
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