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GARY — The 22-year-old Hammond man who escaped from custody of a private transport vehicle Monday is accused of working with a 14-year-old boy to murder a Chicago man Nov. 19 in East Chicago, court records show. Leon Taylors murder case remains sealed because he is not yet in custody at the Lake County Jail, but details became public when a co-defendant was charged with a felony count of assisting a criminal. According to court records, Taylor and the 14-year-old robbed and fatally shotÂ�...

GARY — The 22-year-old Hammond man who escaped from custody of a private transport vehicle Monday is accused of working with a 14-year-old boy to murder a Chicago man Nov. 19 in East Chicago, court records show. Leon Taylors murder case remains sealed because he is not yet in custody at the Lake County Jail, but details became public when a co-defendant was charged with a felony count of assisting a criminal. According to court records, Taylor and the 14-year-old robbed and fatally shotÂ�...

A Hammond man accused of murder escaped from custody Monday afternoon in Gary and remains on the loose and dangerous, according to Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. Leon Taylor, 22, was being transported from Texas to Lake County by an agent from REDI Transports, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, when Taylor managed to flee from the area of 35th Street and Grant Street in Gary, despite being locked into a belly chain with handcuffs and a leg brace, police said. A manhunt by Gary police and the Lake...

A Hammond man accused of murder escaped from custody Monday afternoon in Gary and remains on the loose and dangerous, according to Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. Leon Taylor, 22, was being transported from Texas to Lake County by an agent from REDI Transports, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, when Taylor managed to flee from the area of 35th Street and Grant Street in Gary, despite being locked into a belly chain with handcuffs and a leg brace, police said. A manhunt by Gary police and the Lake...