The Boise Police Department (BPD) announced in a press conference Thursday that law enforcement captured the two suspects involved in the coordinated escape of a prison inmate at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise Wednesday, which resulted in three corrections officers being shot and injured, according to police.
Escaped Idaho Inmate and Accomplice Involved in Hospital Shooting Captured
At approximately 2 p.m. Thursday, suspects Skylar Meade and accomplice Nicholas Umphenour were located and arrested in Twin Falls County following a short vehicle pursuit and both taken into custody successfully.

Skylar Meade (left) and Nicholas Umphenour were captured Thursday after a Wednesday escape that left three corrections officers injured.
Idaho Department of Correction
At approximately 2 p.m. Thursday, suspects Skylar Meade and accomplice Nicholas Umphenour were located and arrested in Twin Falls County following a short vehicle pursuit and both taken into custody successfully, KTVB reports.
Both suspects are reportedly members of the Aryan Knights gang.
The escape occurred while Meade was being treated at the hospital for an apparent self-inflicted injury.
After Meade was treated, IDOC staff were preparing to transport him back to the prison when an unknown suspect, later identified as Nicholas Umphenour, fired gunshots at officers hitting two of them, BPD said.
Boise Police officers responded to Saint Alphonsus after receiving reports of an active shooter. According to police, one officer fired their weapon at an armed man he saw at the scene. That individual was later identified as an IDOC employee. He was not seriously injured. IDOC said their officers were in uniform at the time of the shooting.
Three officers in total were injured, according to police. Officials said one officer is in critical but stable condition, another sustained serious, but non-life-threatening injuries, and the third officer that was allegedly struck by a BPD officer received care for the non-life-threatening injuries, BPD said.
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