Overview
- Richmond police identified the suspect as 18-year-old Logan Gassman and said he escaped custody near Baptist Health Hospital while handcuffed and was described as violent but unarmed.
- Officers reported Gassman on foot moving toward the EKU soccer field and the nearby DOCJT training facility, which led Eastern Kentucky University to issue shelter-in-place guidance for people on or near campus.
- Local police set a perimeter and deployed drones and K-9 teams to search woods and surrounding areas as university and city units coordinated the response.
- Authorities located and arrested Gassman on a nearby transit bus just after 8:30 a.m., returning him to custody without any reported injuries to campus or community members.
- Police say Gassman had been taken to a medical facility after an earlier crash and then escaped from the back of a police cruiser, a sequence that officials are investigating as they review custody procedures.