Man With Life Sentence Breaks From Prison, an Hour Later He’s Found Dead

L: David Alan Woods. (Gastonia Correctional Center). R: The approximate location where Woods died in a car crash in Gastonia, N.C., on Feb. 26, 2018, according to police. Screenshot via Google Maps

David Alan Woods, 46, was serving life in prison for being an accomplice to a murder when he managed to escape. But after only about an hour as a fugitive, he was found dead.

Woods was incarcerated at Gaston Correctional Center. On Monday, Feb. 26, he was on a work detail in Lowell, North Carolina, the Gaston Gazette reported.