An inmate who escaped from a Tennessee prison four days ago was captured on Sunday, CNN reported.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations (TBI) said that Curtis Ray Watson was apprehended in Henning, which is about 45 miles northeast of Memphis and where the West Tennessee State Penitentiary he escaped from is located.
Watson was serving a 15-year sentence for aggravated kidnapping and is a suspect in the killing of a corrections official who was found dead in her home on the prison grounds on Wednesday, the day that Watson went missing, according to TBI.
After the corrections officer, Debra Johnson, was discovered dead, the prison was immediately locked down and an inmate count conducted, at which point it was discovered that Watson was missing from his work detail, according to NBC News.
TBI at that point also issued, for only the third time since the designation's inception in 2011, a "blue alert," indicating authorities are searching for a violent criminal suspected of killing or injuring law enforcement officers.
This is Watson's second stint in prison after he previously served time for aggravated child abuse and was released in 2011, CNN reported. He returned to prison in 2013.
His capture comes just hours after authorities released a home surveillance video from a Henning resident who said he believed that he had spotted Watson on his property
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