An inmate who was working in a Kentucky candle factory when a tornado ripped the building apart is now on the run, police say.
The Graves County inmate survived the destruction and was treated at the nearby Jackson Purchase Medical Center, police said. When he was released from the hospital, he walked out., the Kentucky State Police said Starks turned himself in to the Calloway County Jail.
Reached by telephone Monday evening, the KSP declined to comment further on whether Starks was lost in the post-disaster chaos or whether he had attempted to escape. Starks is serving time for third-degree burglary, theft by unlawful taking of an automobile and receiving stolen property, according to police.
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