PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Police and other law enforcement in Philadelphia continue to search for Shane Pryor, the 17-year-old inmate who escaped from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on Wednesday.
But what exactly happened at CHOP in the moments leading to his escape?
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Investigators say there were missteps and this wasn’t supposed to happen. Police, the mayor’s office and the Department of Human Services declined to talk on record about the escape.
But, law enforcement sources say Pryor was not handcuffed or restrained when he escaped the custody of people who drove him to CHOP on Wednesday.
Pryor was going to the hospital for treatment for a hand injury, according to police, that happened at the juvenile detention center on North 48th Street and Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia.
The city’s human services department operates the facility and has come under sharp scrutiny before.