GARY â The private security company under whose watch a murder suspect escaped Monday in Gary has commented publicly for the first time.
Wisconsin-based REDI Transports was transporting 22-year-old Leon Taylor, of Hammond, when he escaped from the vehicle, despite being locked into a belly chain with handcuffs and a leg brace, police said.
Taylor was being extradited to Lake County from Texas to face a murder charge in the robbery and shooting death of Daniel Nitzsche, 52, on Nov. 19 outside a building Nitzsche co-owned in the 700 block of West 150th Street in East Chicago. REDI Transports continues to cooperate fully with those investigating the prisoner escape that occurred (Monday) afternoon in Gary, Indiana. We are also conducting our own internal investigation into what happened and are determining what procedural or process changes may be needed to ensure this does not happen again, President Crystal Cook said in a written statement.