Ignored warnings, unlocked doors: How a teen escaped juvenile jail and terrorized a New Orleans woman

NEW ORLEANS — The escape last September of an inmate from New Orleans’ juvenile jail sparked a series of Code 3 alarms.

Within minutes, a woman was carjacked at a nearby parking lot. That led to a statewide manhunt, and three days later, 17-year-old Carlos Taylor was captured in Baton Rouge.

What the public did not know was that there had been a nearly identical escape attempt three months earlier…

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