A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice remained on the loose Wednesday after the accomplice staged a brazen overnight attack to free the inmate as he was being transported from a Boise hospital, police said.
Three corrections officers were shot and wounded – two by the accomplice and one by responding police – during the attack in the ambulance bay at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.
Police throughout the region were looking for the suspected shooter – still unidentified as of Wednesday afternoon – as well as the escaped inmate, described by officials as white supremacist gang member Skylar Meade. Meade, 31, was sentenced to 20 years in 2017 for shooting at a sheriff’s sergeant during a high-speed chase.