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Search is on for men who escaped from Eastern State Hospital

JAMES CITY COUNTY, Virginia – Authorities Now Speak one of two convicted felons who escaped from a Virginia mental hospital on Easter Sunday has been delayed.

Officials of Eastern State Hospital in James City County previously called out soldiers in day to warn them that patients Austin Preston Lee, 31, and Bryant Marcus Wilkerson, 29, had escaped from the facility, according to Sgt. Michelle Anaya with Virginia State Police.

Anaya said to Lee who had outstanding warrants related to drugs out of Chesapeake, was taken into custody by Chesapeake police at 5:45 pm.

Lee told the police he didn’t know Wilkerson or where he might be.

He is being held without bail at the Chesapeake City Jail.

“State and local police departments continue to actively search for Wilkerson and still looking for public help in Any information leading to his capture’ Anaya wrote.

Virginia State Police

Austin Preston Lee and Bryant Marcus Wilkerson

Wilkerson wanted on violation of probation and also has a warrant for escape from the mental hospital.

Anaya said earlier that both men considered armed and dangerous.

Eastern State Hospital, which is about 45 minutes southeast. of Richmond, is national first psychiatric hospital and dates back until 1773. one of five states-run psychiatric hospitals in Commonwealth.

A man escaped from the Central City Hospital last month in County of Dinwiddie for in second time in less than three years. The central state that opened in 1870, was first psychiatric institution in United States for Black people. This hospital has been merged in 1968 and today is home to the only one in the state maximum Department of Mental Health, according to the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services website.

If you have seen Wilkerson or information about his whereabouts call Virginia State Police, tel. 757-424-6800, #77. on on your cell phone or email military personnel at [email protected].

this is an evolving story anyone with more information you can email [email protected] to send a tip.

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Tyler Hromadka
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