North Carolina inmate guilty of 1-year-old's murder escapes during medical appointment
Officials in North Carolina are searching for an inmate convicted of killing a 1-year-old girl after he escaped while being taken to a medical facility Tuesday in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Officials in North Carolina are searching for an inmate convicted of killing a 1-year-old girl after he escaped while being taken to a medical facility Tuesday in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Ramone Alston, 30, was convicted in the Christmas Day 2015 murder of 1-year-old Maleah Williams, a bystander fatally struck when someone opened fire from a vehicle in Chapel Hill. His defense said Alston was there but did not kill the girl. Two other men were arrested, but only one has been targeted for prosecution.
The girl was playing outside her apartment when gunfire erupted, authorities said.
Alston was convicted of first-degree murder in 2018 and sentenced to life behind bars, according to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. He was assigned to Bertie Correctional Institution in Windsor, officials said.
The department said in a statement that Alston arrived about 7 a.m. Tuesday in a prison transport van to the University of North Carolina Medical Center's gastroenterology unit, where he had a medical appointment.
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