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Police capture three of the four teens who escaped from Nashville detention center

Metro Nashville Police are still searching for the remaining escaped teen.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Three of the four teens who escaped the Metro Nashville Juvenile Detention Center late Saturday night are now back in custody, according to Metro Nashville Police.

Decorrius Wright, 16, and Calvin Howse, 15, were apprehended by the Juvenile Crime Task Force in Madison, Tennessee in Tuesday. 

On Friday, they announced they also apprehended Morris Marsh, 17. 

Wright and Marsh were accused of murder. Brandon Caruthers, 17, is still on the run. Caruthers and Howse both have armed robbery and gun possession charges in their arrest histories. 

Police said the four escaped the Juvenile Detention Center downtown at approximately 9:44 p.m. Saturday.

Police said the remaining suspect should be considered dangerous. Caruthers was last seen running on S. 2nd Street toward Jefferson Street.

According to police, at least 35 minutes passed before the department was notified of the escape. The four teens were on a work detail when their night staff supervisor left them to address a fight inside the facility. They managed to get onto an elevator and used staff protocols to ride to the ground floor where they went through a series of doors and exited to the outside.

Wright is accused in the February 7th murder of Kyle Yorlets, 24, on Torbett Street. Marsh is accused in the April 8th murder of Charles Easley, 19, on Lemont Drive. Caruthers has been transferred to adult court on an August 2018 armed robbery case from Apache Trail in South Nashville. Howse was last arrested November 21st on Dickerson Pike on charges of auto theft and gun possession.

Four employees that worked for the company that operates Metro's Juvenile Detention Facility have been suspended following the escapes.

Anyone who sees the escaped teen is asked to immediately contact the Emergency Communications Center at 615-862-8600.

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