Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped Wednesday from the West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Lauderdale County and is a person of interest in a homicide.
LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Tenn. - Authorities in western Tennessee are searching for an inmate who escaped Wednesday, the same day a longtime corrections official was found dead in her home on the grounds of the prison.
"Rest assured that we will find this offender and bring justice to the family of Debra Johnson," Commissioner Tony Parker of the Tennessee Department of Correction said.
The West Tennessee State Penitentiary is in Henning, about 45 miles northeast of Memphis.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation added Watson to its Most Wanted list and tweeted pictures of his face and his tattoos.