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BOISE, Idaho (Fox10) - Skylar Meade, an Idaho prisoner & white supremacist who escaped custody at a Boise hospital after an accomplice shot & wounded corrections officers, is still at large, along with the man who helped him flee.
Nicholas Umphenour is the accomplice suspected of shooting 2 corrections officers in an ambush Wednesday in the ambulance bay at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. Umphenour is now wanted on 2 charges of aggravated battery against law enforcement & 1 charge of aiding & abetting an escape.
Meade & Umphenour took off in a gray 2020 Honda Civic with license plate 2TDF43U.
Meade, 31, is a white supremacist & Aryan Knights gang member who was sentenced to 20 years in 2017 for shooting at a sheriff’s sergeant during a high-speed chase. Meade has prior convictions including felony possession of a controlled substance, grand theft, and introduction of contraband into a correctional facility.
He has been behind bars since October 2016 and was set to be released in October 2036.
Idaho corrections officers ambushed, shot at hospital.
Authorities said Meade was taken to the hospital at 9:35 p.m. Tuesday after he engaged in "self-injurious behavior" & medical staff determined he needed emergency care.
The attack against officers happened at 2:15 a.m. as Idaho Department of Correction officers prepared to bring Meade back to prison.
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