WATCH ABOVE: An accused bank robber is back in custody after a wild break out overnight from a Virginia hospital. Now authorities want to know how he managed to escape. Mark Albert has the latest.
WASHINGTON – Police say a prisoner who escaped custody at a northern Virginia hospital with a guard’s gun has been captured in Washington.
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Fairfax County police tweeted just before noon Tuesday that the escaped prisoner was in the custody of Metropolitan Police.
Police say one shot was fired early Tuesday as a guard wrestled with Wossen Assaye, who then fled Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church in a hospital gown and carjacked a car miles away. Police say he later carjacked a second car.
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Authorities say Assaye was being held on a federal bank robbery charge and was taken to the hospital last week after attempting suicide.
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