By Brendan O’Brien

(Reuters) – Authorities moved in Tuesday to capture a couple from Indiana after a murder suspect escaped from Alabama’s jail. He was assisted by a female corrections officer.

On Monday, however, law enforcement officers rammed into the Cadillac being driven by the couple, and then pushed it into the ditch so that fugitive Casey White, Sheriff Dave Wedding from Vanderburgh County in Indiana said at a press conference.

He said that if they hadn’t done so, the fugitive would have engaged in a shootout against law enforcement.

A police officer spotted Vicky White (56-year-old assistant corrections directors) driving the Cadillac outside of an Evansville hotel. This led to the capture.

Police set up surveillance around the hotel where the couple had been for one week. Then they spotted them as they left. Wedding stated that a car chase took place through the park and into a field.

Wedding claimed that the quick-thinking and prompt actions of law enforcement personnel could have saved lives.

Wedding reported that at most four guns, an AR-15 rifle and $29,000 of cash were recovered by authorities from the vehicle they drove.

Vicky White was apparently shot by herself and died later in hospital.

Officials stated that Casey White has been transported to Alabama in order to face new charges.

Casey White (previously accused of the September 2020 stabbing murder and currently on probation for 2015 crimes) will face an escape charge. Sheriff Rick Singleton from Lauderdale County, Alabama stated that White is now facing an escape case. Vicky White (17-year veteran of corrections) was about to retire.

Vicky White, who was in charge of Casey White’s custody, saw him handcuffed, beaten, and tied to a chair as he left Muscle Shoals (Alabama), about 65 minutes west of Huntsville in late April. According to reports, the corrections officer transported Casey White to the courthouse in Alabama for a mental exam.