White supremacist Idaho inmate sparks manhunt after escaping Boise prison: Live

Boise Police Chief Ron Winegar denounced the attack coordinated by an accomplice and escaped inmate on Wednesday.

“This brazen, violent, and apparently coordinated attack on Idaho Department of Corrections personnel, to facilitate an escape of a dangerous inmate, was carried out right in front of the Emergency Department, where people come for medical help, often in the direst circumstances,” Mr Winegar said.

“We caution anyone who may have contact with the suspects involved in this violent attack and escape to call 911 immediately and not confront them personally. They are armed, dangerous, and have shown they are willing to use extreme violence in furtherance of their criminal activity.”

The Boise Police Department has issued an arrest warrant for Nicholas Umphenour, the man accused of being an accomplice to Skylar Meade’s escape.

The warrant is for two counts of aggravated battery against law enforcement and one charge of aiding and abetting an escape. It also has a $2 million bond.

Police believe Umphenour and Meade are in a Grey 2020 Honda Civic with Idaho license plate 2TDF43U.

The inmate who escaped from the Idaho Department of Corrections on Wednesday is affiliated with a white supremacist prison gang called the Aryan Knights.

The group has white supremacist and white separatist ideologies. It is believed to have over 100 members inside and outside of IDOC. The group has used violence and threats of violence to target non-white inmates and other targeted inmates.

The Anti-Defamation League says the group will identify themselves with tattoos for the number “12” as well as “A” and “K”.

Police have asked people to be on the lookout for Skylar Meade, who sports a “1” and “11” tattoo as well as an “A” and “K”.

Three Idaho Department of Corrections officers were shot as an inmate escaped from a hospital in Boise. Now, officials are looking for two suspects: The inmate and the man who attacked and fired at the officers.

Police say that the incident started at 2.15am on Wednesday when officials transported inmate Skylar Meade to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center for medical treatment.

As the officers were preparing to transport the inmate back to a correctional facility, an unknown suspect attacked and fired at the officers, hitting two of them, according to officials.

Additional officers responded to the hospital amid news of a shooting and the facility went into lockdown as police searched for suspects. One officer fired his gun at an armed individual near the entrance of the facility. Officials later determined that the person was a correctional officer.

Three Idaho Department of Corrections officers were shot as an inmate escaped from a hospital in Boise. Now, officials are looking for two suspects: The inmate and the man who attacked and fired at the officers.

Police say that the incident started at 2.15am on Wednesday when officials transported inmate Skylar Meade to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center for medical treatment.

Michelle Del Rey reports:

Police are searching for Nicholas Umphenour, a man accused of helping prison inmate Skylar Meade escape, by staging a “violent” and “brazen” attack.

Umphenour is described as 5’11” and 160 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes.

Police allege that Umphenour is an associate of Meade and helped him escape from police custody by firing at two correctional officers as they were transporting Meade to the hospital on Wednesday morning. He also drove Meade away in a  Grey 2020 Honda Civic.

A warrant and $2 million bond have been issued for Umphenour’s arrest. The arrest is for two counts of aggravated battery against law enforcement and one charge of aiding and abetting an escape.

Police in Idaho are searching for 31-year-old Skylar Meade, an inmate at the Idaho Department of Corrections, who escaped from custody on Wednesday morning in what law enforcement say was a “brazen” and “violent” stagged attack.

Meade is 5’6” and 150 pounds. He has face tattoos with the number one and 11 – to represent the first and 11th letters of the alphabet, A and K, – which stands for Aryan Knights, the gang he is affiliated with. He also has an “A” and “K” tattoo on his abdomen.

The Aryan Knights are a white supremacist prison gang formed in the Idaho prison system in the 1990s, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Meade was serving time in the IDOC for aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer with a firearm enhancement. He also has prior convictions, including felony possession of a controlled substance, grand theft and introduction of contraband into a correctional facility.

He was incarcerated in October 2016.