MIAMI – Officers surrounded Jackson Memorial Hospital on Friday afternoon after an inmate who was thought to be wearing a hospital gown attempted to escape, News 6 sister station WPLG reports.The inmate identified as Jermaine Henderson was supposed to be taking a shower before scheduled surgery when he escaped through the ceiling of the bathroom, police said.
He made it to the 10th floor and stole a janitorial uniform, police said. He was walking barefoot when he walked out of the building.Officers quickly put the hospital on lockdown and set up a perimeter.
Henderson, 39, was running and jumping through people’s backyards, so the residents called 911, police said. He hid under a truck.