ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A convicted murderer who escaped from Louisiana’s top-security prison was captured on Monday partly because of a tip from an 8-year-old boy who spotted the man outside his school, the prison warden said. The boy, Hunter Gaines, spotted escaped convict Henry Smith “run across the basketball court” at his elementary school in nearby Tunica on Thursday, the day Smith ran off from nearby Louisiana State Penitentiary, warden Burl Cain said. The tip helped, even though the child waited until Saturday to report the sighting, Cain said. “That witness confirmed that we were looking in the right place,” Cain said. “He’s a little hero.”
Warden: boy, 8, aided in capture of La. escapee
September 13, 2009