Eye-Popping Escape Leaves Clue to Crime
Police are looking for a 24-year-old former convict after finding an unexpected clue at the scene of his alleged eye-popping escape.
Detectives found a plastic eyeball marked “A. Harris” at an apartment complex where a 28-year-old man was wounded by two gunmen Jan. 16. Aaron Levall Harris, the fake eye’s apparent owner, is a suspect, police said.
Detective Shawn Maples said it appears the prosthetic eye popped out of its socket during an escape from the second-story apartment.
Harris lost his left eye when wounded by a shotgun blast in 1988, according to police.
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