ESCAPED! Criminally Insane Man on the Loose!
This happened last night at the facility I work at. There are two buildings, one is for the criminals (the foresnic center) which is a maximum security facility with 62 inmates, and the other is lower security with about 250 psychiatric patients. They don't specify in this article but did report it on the news.
There is a nation-wide manhunt for Bullocks.
Murder Suspect Escapes From Mental Health Facility
Jul 16 2007 6:20PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police are still searching for a man who escaped from the Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare facility late Sunday night.
Jerry Bullucks (pictured above) was being held at the facility on Columbus' west side on two counts of attempted murder, 10TV's Penny Moore reported.
It was believed that Bullucks, 19, escaped from the facility shortly before midnight. He was last seen near West Broad Street at about 1:30 a.m., police said.
Police searched a home on Oakley Avenue and West Broad Street at about 4:30 a.m. after they received a phone call that he may have been there. Officers broke into home but did not find anyone inside, 10TV News reported.
He was charged with two counts of aggravated murder, one count of felonious assault, one count of attempted aggravated murder and four counts of aggravated robbery.
Bullucks was taken to the mental health facility instead of going to jail, 10TV News reported.
Currently, 62 patients are housed inside individual rooms at Twin Valley. All have been referred to the facility through the Ohio court system to be restored to competency, or because they were found legally insane after committing a crime, Moore reported.
Bullucks is the first patient to escape from Twin Valley, Moore reported.
Laura Wentz with the Ohio Department of Mental Health said staff members are required to take counts of patients several times a day.
"Counts are done every 15 minutes in all of our facilities to make sure people are where they are supposed to be at that time," Wentz said. "To my understanding, the checks were done (Sunday night) as scheduled."
Bullucks is described as black, 5 feet 8 inches tall, and was wearing a blue Nike shirt with a white T-shirt underneath, denim shorts and blue tennis shoes. Police said he is considered to be dangerous.
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
Stay with 10TV News and 10TV.com for additional information.
http://10tv.com/?sec=&story=sites/10tv/content/pool/200707/325706003.html
Here is more...
If you see Bullocks, please call police!
This happened last night at the facility I work at. There are two buildings, one is for the criminals (the foresnic center) which is a maximum security facility with 62 inmates, and the other is lower security with about 250 psychiatric patients. They don't specify in this article but did report it on the news.
There is a nation-wide manhunt for Bullocks.
Murder Suspect Escapes From Mental Health Facility
Jul 16 2007 6:20PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police are still searching for a man who escaped from the Twin Valley Behavioral Healthcare facility late Sunday night.
Jerry Bullucks (pictured above) was being held at the facility on Columbus' west side on two counts of attempted murder, 10TV's Penny Moore reported.
It was believed that Bullucks, 19, escaped from the facility shortly before midnight. He was last seen near West Broad Street at about 1:30 a.m., police said.
Police searched a home on Oakley Avenue and West Broad Street at about 4:30 a.m. after they received a phone call that he may have been there. Officers broke into home but did not find anyone inside, 10TV News reported.
He was charged with two counts of aggravated murder, one count of felonious assault, one count of attempted aggravated murder and four counts of aggravated robbery.
Bullucks was taken to the mental health facility instead of going to jail, 10TV News reported.
Currently, 62 patients are housed inside individual rooms at Twin Valley. All have been referred to the facility through the Ohio court system to be restored to competency, or because they were found legally insane after committing a crime, Moore reported.
Bullucks is the first patient to escape from Twin Valley, Moore reported.
Laura Wentz with the Ohio Department of Mental Health said staff members are required to take counts of patients several times a day.
"Counts are done every 15 minutes in all of our facilities to make sure people are where they are supposed to be at that time," Wentz said. "To my understanding, the checks were done (Sunday night) as scheduled."
Bullucks is described as black, 5 feet 8 inches tall, and was wearing a blue Nike shirt with a white T-shirt underneath, denim shorts and blue tennis shoes. Police said he is considered to be dangerous.
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
Stay with 10TV News and 10TV.com for additional information.
http://10tv.com/?sec=&story=sites/10tv/content/pool/200707/325706003.html
Here is more...
If you see Bullocks, please call police!
Murder Suspect Escapes From Behaviorial Center
Monday, Jul 16, 2007 - 08:16 AM Updated: 05:54 PM
By Denise Yost
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- State authorities are looking for a murder suspect who escaped from a behavioral center overnight.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol said Gerald Bullocks, 19, escaped from the Twin Valley Behavioral Center shortly before midnight, NBC 4 reported.
Bullocks is charged with two counts of aggravated murder. He is accused of shooting two men during a drug deal in Cincinnati on New Year's Eve. One of the men involved in the shooting died.
Officials at the facility have been tight-lipped about the escape, refusing to answer questions about how Bullocks escaped and how many guards were on duty Sunday night.
When asked specific questions, Twin Valley officials referred NBC 4 to OSP. When OSP officials were approached, they referred questions back to Twin Valley.
According to a confidential source, Bullocks was in the state's only maximum security unit for mental health patients for three weeks. The source told NBC 4 that Bullocks somehow accessed the facility's courtyard where he jumped a fence and was able to escape over a large wall.
According to the Web site for the center, ( http://www.mh.state.oh.us/ibhs/bhos/tvbh.html ), patients at the facility are treated for a variety of disorders, including schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder.
Some patients are referred to the center by criminal courts.
Bullocks is described as being 5 feet 8 inches tall. He was last seen wearing a Nike sweatshirt and jean shorts.
Anyone with information is asked to call OSP at 614-466-2660.
According to numbers provided by patrol officials, there have been four escapes, including Bullocks, at the facility since 2002.
The patrol said that in only one of the cases, the escapee was not under court commitment -- meaning that when they escaped, charges would not be filed against them.
In the seven mental health facilities run by the state, there have been an additional 40 escapes since 2002.
Stay with NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com for additional information.
http://www.nbc4i.com/midwest/cmh/news.apx.-content-articles-CMH-2007-07-16-0003.html
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