Police: 2 Escaped Florida Inmates Kill 1, Steal Cars
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Authorities say two escaped Florida inmates who are still on the loose killed a woman and stole two cars.
Police say 23-year-old Doni Ray Brown and 25-year-old Timothy Wayne Fletcher broke out of the Putnam County Jail in Palatka at 4 a.m. Wednesday and stole a truck. Palatka is about 40 miles east of Gainesville in northeastern Florida.
Later, authorities discovered a car missing and its owner dead inside her Palatka home.
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Putnam County Lt. Johnny Greenwood says the victim was related to one of the suspects.
Brown was arrested Aug. 17 and charged with robbery with a firearm. Fletcher was arrested March 3 on three counts of failure to appear on an aggravated assault charge.
Police would not say how the pair escaped.