Hunt Continues for Escaped Inmates

SULPHUR SPRINGS (AP) – Authorities have continued hunting a capital murder suspect and a convicted drug offender who escaped Tuesday from the Hopkins County Jail. Hopkins County Sheriff’s Sgt. Brad Cummings says one escapee, Brian Allen Tucker, has short hair and “drop dead” tattooed on the back of his head. The inmates fled the jail in Sulphur Springs by scaling a fence or slipping through a gap in a perimeter fence Tuesday morning. Tucker, of Sulphur Springs, faces trial in the 2011 slaying of Bobby Riley of Mahoney. John Marlin King, of Cumby, pleaded guilty last month to drug possession as a habitual offender and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.