HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — A man who escaped from a northwest Ohio prison earlier this month died from drowning.
That’s according to preliminary autopsy results released Wednesday.
Fifty-year-old Bradley Gillespie and 47-year-old James Lee were reported missing May 23 from the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima.
Authorities say the two escaped by concealing themselves in a trash container.
Lee was caught the next day in Henderson, Kentucky, after a police pursuit of a stolen car the men were in ended in a crash and a foot chase.
Gillespie avoided capture.
His body was spotted Sunday in the Ohio River.