Authorities said four teens managed to escape from a juvenile justice facility in Jacksonville late Saturday night by staging an altercation in their dorm room and attacking staff members who tried to intervene.
The inmates — identified as Tajah Bing, 16, Davionne Baldwin, 17, Tyjuan Monroe, 16, and Marcus Ledbetter, 17 — then allegedly overpowered workers in the facility’s control room and opened the front door, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office
“[The] suspects then fought with staff in the control room and pushed buttons to release the front door,” the office said in a statement. “Suspects dumped a staff member’s purse onto the floor and stole her vehicle keys and took a staff issued cell phone.”
The teens allegedly stole a worker’s car keys, cell phone and purse, and fled in her vehicle, the office said.
It posted images of the teens and the stolen getaway vehicle — a bronze, 4-door Infiniti Q50 with Florida license plate LANE19 — on Twitter Sunday, asking the public to help with the search.