TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Authorities are searching for a 19-year-old prisoner who escaped from a South Florida hospital on Thursday.
Justice Reynolds, 19, walked away from HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital at 9:15 p.m., the Fort Pierce Police Department wrote in a social media post early Friday morning.
Reynolds was a resident of the Everglades Youth Academy in Okeechobee, a maximum-risk program for teenage boys and young adults, a police spokesperson told NBC affiliate WPTV. Police did not say why Reynolds was in the hospital.
He was last seen heading west near the 1700 block of South 23rd Street while wearing black shorts and no shirt. Reynolds is described as 5’8″, 150 pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes and tattoos on both of his arms.
Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is urged to call 911.
