UPDATE: Authorities have captured Cameron Kennedy at a home in Ellington, Missouri. The truck Kennedy and Hunter Vest stole was also recovered.
Cameron Kennedy was taken back into custody this evening at an Ellington, Missouri residence. The white Chevrolet Colorado pickup has also been recovered. pic.twitter.com/t2Jn201pQq
— MSHP Troop G (@MSHPTrooperG) September 29, 2020
Vest is still on the run.
Hunter Vest remains at large. Please report sightings or any suspicious activity to your nearest law enforcement agency. pic.twitter.com/MaL9jwfTom
— MSHP Troop G (@MSHPTrooperG) September 29, 2020
Below is the original story from Monday, September 28…
The Missouri Highway Patrol and Shannon County Sheriff’s Department are looking for two men who assaulted a jailer and escaped the county jail.
At around 3 pm today, two inmates escaped from the Shannon Co jail after assaulting a jailer. Subjects left in a white Chevrolet Colorado with a tool box in the back, traveling eastbound out of Eminence. pic.twitter.com/XTH3cJuxsA
— MSHP Troop G (@MSHPTrooperG) September 27, 2020
Authorities say they’re looking for Hunter S. Vest and Cameron P. Kennedy. Law enforcement pursued a vehicle the two were in but the two got away in a white Chevrolet Colorado with an aluminum toolbox in the bed, traveling eastbound out of Eminence.
Law enforcement later pursued the vehicle in the Ellington, Missouri, area, but the inmates got away from officers near Highway 72 in Reynolds County.
Both inmates were wearing orange jump suits at the time of their escapes.
Vest is described as 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 120 pounds with short brown hair and brown eyes.
He is known to have connections in the Qulin, Missouri, area. He was being held on a Carter County charge of resisting arrest by fleeing.
Kennedy is described as 5 feet, 11 inches tall and 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
He was being held on Carter County charges of tampering with a motor vehicle 1st degree and unlawful possession of a weapon.
If you have any information, you’re asked to contact the nearest law enforcement agency.
