Ramon “Jamar” Alston, the “Christmas Day Killer,” who escaped custody Tuesday morning and fled into the woods near the University of North Carolina Hillsboro Hospital, has been rearrested in Kannapolis, North Carolina, authorities said.
Special Forces officers arrested him at about 2 a.m. Friday at a hotel on Cloverleaf Parkway, investigators said.
That’s more than 100 miles west from where he fled.
North Carolina sheriff hunting ‘Christmas Killer’ knows him personally and warns he has ‘nothing to lose’
Officers with the North Carolina Prison Emergency Response Team search for escaped inmate Ramone Alston, in Hillsboro, N.C., on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. Alston, who was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder, escaped from the University of North Carolina Hospital in Hillsboro on Tuesday morning while being transferred from Bertie Correctional Facility to Hillsboro. (Robert Willett/News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
“Alston has been charged with the felony count of escaping from a prison and will be transported to a maximum security facility in the state prison system,” a spokesman for the state Department of Adult Corrections said in a statement. “There he will resume serving his life sentence for first-degree murder and await his trial on the escape charge.”
Ramone Jamar Alston was arrested after escaping from custody. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
Police also arrested a woman known to Alston, Jacobia Crisp, in Alamance County, on suspicion of aiding a fugitive. Investigators are investigating whether Crisp had assistance from anyone else and said more charges may be filed.
North Carolina sheriff launches manhunt for convicted murderer who escaped on way to hospital
Ramon Jamar Alston, 30, was being transferred from Bertie Correctional Facility to the University of North Carolina at Hillsboro’s gastroenterology department for treatment when he escaped from custody of North Carolina Department of Corrections officers. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
Alston, 30, was serving a life sentence for the murder of 1-year-old Marieah Williams, who died after being shot in the back of the head in a drive-by shooting.
Orange County Sheriff Charles Blackwood said earlier this week that he grew up with the fugitive’s father and has known him for a long time.
“He was a troubled child and was involved in criminal activity from a young age,” he said. He told reporters “He’s being extremely cautious. He’s being extremely dangerous. And he has nothing to lose,” he said during a Wednesday morning briefing streamed on Facebook.
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina had offered a $35,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of suspect Ramon Jamar Alston. Authorities later increased the reward to $50,000 before investigators found him hiding out in a Kannapolis hotel on Friday morning. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)
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Alston was one of two gunmen driving the car in a 2015 drive-by shooting in Chapel Hill. News & ObserverThey opened fire on the apartment complex, hitting Maleah in the back of the head with one bullet as she was being held by her mother.
