Authorities in Virginia say they are searching for a prisoner who escaped a hospital early Tuesday morning after he wrestled a gun from a guard and escaped with the firearm, wearing only a hospital gown.
One shot was fired during the struggle around 3 a.m. at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Fairfax County Police Chief Ed Roessler said. Them hospital was placed on a brief lockdown that was lifted later in the morning.
The prisoner, identified as Wossen Assaye is considered armed and dangerous,Roessler said. Assaye was being held on federal bank robbery charges involving a suspect who fled on a bicycle.
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