A “strange noise” caught the attention of a Jefferson County Detention Officer and led to his discovery that inmate Tory Vincent Gee was “not in his cell” prior to his escape the night of Oct. 11, Sheriff Craig Doolittle said Friday morning a few hours prior to Gee’s capture in Lake County.
“[The detention officer] was hearing a strange noise coming from the … it sounded like it was coming from the observation cell,” Doolitle said. “So he was checking the observation cell, found it wasn’t that, and that’s when he started checking other areas of the detention center. I believe it was about [8:45 p.m.] when the detention officer noticed that [Gee’s] cell had been compromised and he was not in it.”
Doolittle would not say how the cell was compromised or how Gee escaped.
