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3 Idaho corrections officers shot as suspect breaks an inmate out of Boise hospital, police say

March 20, 2024

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Three correctional officers were shot - two by a
suspect and one by responding police - during a brazen overnight attack to break a prison inmate out of an Idaho hospital, authorities said
Wednesday.

Police throughout the region were looking for the suspected shooter as
well as the escaped inmate, Skylar Meade, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2017 for shooting at a sheriff's sergeant during a high-speed
chase. Meade and the suspect fled in a gray four-door sedan, possibly a
Honda Civic, with Idaho plates.

The attack occurred at 2:15 a.m. as Idaho Department of Corrections
officers prepared to bring Meade back to prison from Saint Alphonsus
Regional Medical Center in Boise, where they had taken him for undisclosed treatment.

One officer shot by the suspect was in critical but stable condition,
police said, while the second wounded officer had serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The third injured corrections officer also sustained non-life-threatening injuries when a responding officer -
incorrectly believing the shooter was still in the emergency room and
seeing an armed person near the entrance - opened fire.

"This brazen, violent, and apparently coordinated attack on Idaho
Department of Corrections personnel, to facilitate an escape of a
dangerous inmate, was carried out right in front of the Emergency
Department, where people come for medical help, often in the direst circumstances," Boise Police Chief Ron Winegar said in a written
statement.

The attack is part of a wave of gun violence at hospitals and medical
centers, which have struggled to adapt to the threats.

A Saint Alphonsus spokesperson said the shooting happened in the ambulance
bay by its emergency department.

"All patients and staff are safe, the medical center campus is safe and
secure, and has resumed normal operations. The Emergency Department itself
is currently under temporary lockdown while the Boise Police Department completes the investigation," Leticia Ramirez said Wednesday morning in a statement.

She said as an added precaution, "we have increased security on campus,
all entrances to the hospital will be closed" and monitored by hospital security until further notice.

Ramirez declined to comment when asked about Meade, deferring to the
police department.
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