Authorities Capture 1 Inmate Who Escaped Ohio Prison, but Convicted Murderer Still on the Lam

Bradley Gillespie (L) and James Lee. Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP

LIMA, Ohio—One of two inmates who escaped from an Ohio prison was captured early Wednesday in Kentucky after a police pursuit of a stolen car the men were believed to be in ended in a crash and a foot chase, authorities said.

James Lee, 47, was captured at the scene but Bradley Gillespie, 50, remained at large. Gillespie has been imprisoned since 2016 for murder, while Lee was serving a sentence he received in 2021 for burglary and safecracking.