A murder suspect who was able to slip out of his handcuffs and escape a Nevada interrogation room was captured early Wednesday, police said.
(FOX)- North Las Vegas police said in a news release that Alonso Perez, 25, was located inside a Vegas home and was taken into custody without incident.
Perez was alone in an interrogation room when he broke the hinge on his handcuffs and escaped the police station with one cuff still attached to his right wrist, Office Aaron Petty said.
“He twisted them until they broke,” Petty said earlier Tuesday of the wrist restraints. “This is an extremely unfortunate circumstance. We’re going to take a look at the details of how he escaped.
Perez was identified by police as a suspect in an Aug. 27 shooting that left Mohammed Robinson, 31, dead outside a McDonald’s fast food restaurant. Witnesses told police that the argument began after Robinson didn’t hold the door for woman.
Perez allegedly fled from the police station and stole a Ford F-250 work truck from a nearby parking lot. The vehicle was later found in a neighborhood east of downtown Las Vegas.
The escape was believed to be the second this year from a police station in the Las Vegas area.
The April escape of Ivan Mayoral-Lizarraga from a northeast Las Vegas police substation prompted a nearly five-hour lockdown of a surrounding neighborhood before the search was called off. Police said Mayoral-Lizarraga was being questioned in a stolen vehicle investigation when he fled.