- Philadelphia police are searching for 2 inmates who escaped a jail in the city Sunday night.
- The jail did not learn of their escape until Monday afternoon.
A manhunt for two escaped Philadelphia inmates continues into Tuesday as police search for two men who snuck out of a jail Sunday night.
The men, Ameen Hurst, 18, and Nasir Grant, 24, escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, the US Marshals Services said in a statement shared with Insider. Surveillance footage from that night shows the two men cutting a hole in the fence at the correctional center, ABC 6 reported.
But the correctional center had no idea the men were missing until 3:00 p.m. on Monday, Prisons Commissioner Blanche Carney said, according to ABC 6. Carney said the jail staff conducted three headcounts in the time between the escape and the staff learning they were gone.
ABC 6 reported the three headcounts took place on Sunday at 11:00 p.m., Monday at 3:00 a.m., and Monday at 7:00 a.m.
"So the facility became aware today at their 3:00 p.m. headcount that we had two individuals that were not accounted for. They're going back through the process to see if those three counts that were called in as cleared and why they did not detect those two individuals missing," Carney said, according to ABC 6.
When asked whether a member of the jail staff aided the inmates in their escape, Carney said an investigation is ongoing.
Hurst and Grant were in the same unit at the time of the escape, but they did not share a cell, NBC 10 reported.
Hurst was being held on murder charges, and Grant was being held on charges related to narcotics and gun violations, the US Marshals Service said in its statement.
"I'm really angry about it," Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said during a Monday press conference, according to NBC 10. "There is no reason for this. And if everybody followed through and do what they are supposed to do, we wouldn't have this problem."
"Clearly the system screwed up, and people didn't do what they are supposed to do. It's clear," Kenney added. "But we want to find out exactly who, exactly how often, and what we have to do to make sure it's back up again."