Escaped South Carolina hospital inmate accused in killings caught

By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - An escaped South Carolina mental hospital inmate charged with the 2006 murders of his mother and stepfather was captured in Tennessee on Friday, police said. Jason Mark Carter, 39, drove away from the G. Werber Bryan Psychiatric Hospital in Columbia on Thursday in a state-owned van. He was captured without incident early Friday at a hotel west of Nashville, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said. Carter had since 2010 held a paid job in a patient work program that allowed him to drive in a van with a staff member outside the locked hospital fence to deliver supplies, said Mark Binkley, deputy director for administration at the South Carolina state Mental Health Department.



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