Killer Who Escaped at Airport Recaptured at Homeless Camp
A convicted murderer who escaped from Oakland County, Mich., sheriff’s deputies at Los Angeles International Airport on Sept. 10 was recaptured Monday at a makeshift homeless encampment in Las Vegas, the U. S. Marshal’s Service said.
Daniele Steven Scott, 27, surrendered when they confronted him beneath an underpass on Interstate 15, officials said.
Scott, who had been serving time at the Lompoc Federal Penitentiary, was returning to Michigan to begin serving a murder sentence when he asked to use a toilet at the airport, police said. When a deputy removed one of his handcuffs, he attacked the deputy, wrestled away the keys to the cuffs and fled.
Deputy Marshal Stan Griscavage told a news conference in Los Angeles that Scott apparently spent about a week and a half in the Los Angeles area before hitchhiking or taking a taxi to Salt Lake City. “After a few days there, he hopped a freight train and jumped off in Las Vegas,” Griscavage said.
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