Wheel-chair bound TX Inmate Escapes with Uniform, Guns

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HOUSTON --

A Texas Department of Criminal Justice inmate who was shackled and confined to a wheelchair took over a van as he was being transported between prisons and escaped, KPRC Local 2 reported Monday.

TDCJ officials said Arcade Joseph Comeaux, 49, pulled out a gun and hijacked the van as he was being transferred from the Estelle Unit in Huntsville to the Stiles Unit in Beaumont.

Comeaux has been using a wheelchair for at least 10 years, officials said, and requested one for the transfer. Comeaux was wearing one of the officers' gray correctional uniforms and black boots as he walked off. The wheelchair was left behind.

Comeaux is serving a life sentence for indecency with a child in Harris County, aggravated sexual assault in Brazos County and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Fort Bend County. While in prison, Comeaux was confined to his maximum-security cell for 22 hours a day.

Prison officials said despite being confined to a wheelchair, he stabbed his wife multiple times with a metal object during a prison visit in 1999. Leola Comeaux was treated for wounds to her face, head and chest. She survived.

As a result of that attack, Comeaux was given two additional life sentences for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

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