NASH COUNTY, N.C. – Four out of the five inmates who escaped from the Nash County Jail Monday have been captured.

  • Raheem Horne, Laquaris Battle, David Viverrette, David Ruffin, and Keonte Murphy escaped the Nash County Jail Monday..
  • Officials say they got through a hole in a fence.
  • Laquaris Battle is still missing.

Police say Raheem Horne, Laquaris Battle, David Viverrette, David Ruffin, and Keonte Murphy were in an exercise yard and got through a hole in a fence.

The Nash County Sheriff's Office says they've had about 140 law enforcement officers from nearly a dozen different agencies, all trying to locate Battle.

Deputies have been successful with finding the other four escaped inmates. Viverrette and Horne were tracked 15 miles down the road in a hotel room at Hal Orr's Inn in Rocky Mount.

Ruffin and Murphy were both found at a home in Farmville.

Deputies say they are searching for Battle just north in the Castalia area.

 

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 252-459-1510. A $1,500 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture.