Morning. And thank you for joining us for this morning's press conference
regarding an escaped inmate from the Southern Roseville Medical Center. We
kindly ask that you please hold all questions until the end of the
conference and just for the interest of time regarding the urgency of the
situation, we kindly ask that reporters be limited to two questions. I can also
be available for one on one questions at the end of this press conference. If
need be with that, I'd like to introduce Sheriff Hu who will be giving
*** brief overview of this incident and our commitment to this operation.
Thank you.
Good morning, everybody. Thank you for being here today. My name is Wayne Wu
and I'm the Placer County sheriff today just after 3 a.m. inmate, Erica Burrell
was able to escape from custody from the Sutter Roseville Medical Center.
Abrille is the suspect in the April 6 shooting here in the city of Roseville
that occurred at the Mahaney Park
was brought to the Cedar Roosevelt Medical Center on Thursday, July 6 for
an unknown medical condition. He was transported here by ambulance and under
guard. Abri has been under *** 24 hour guard since arriving at the hospital.
Unfortunately, today, shortly after 3 a.m. Abri was able to escape, we
believe he was last seen wearing belly chains and orange jail pants, no shirt,
no shoes. There was *** brief foot pursuit with *** deputy who was on
scene. Unfortunately, Ari was still able to escape. I know there's *** lot
of questions surrounding this case, specifically surrounding the
circumstances regarding the escape. Quite frankly, I have *** lot of
questions as well. I can assure the community that when the time is right,
there will be *** thorough investigation into how this was able to
occur and whether there are any policy violations. But quite frankly, right
now, all of our resources are focused on making sure we get *** Brill back
into custody.
Clearly, we consider *** brill *** very dangerous fugitive. We have over 200
law enforcement officers on scene right now helping us in this search. These
are local state and federal resources from throughout our region.
I want to thank Chief Troy Bergstrom and members of the Roosevelt Police
Department who we've been in joint Unified Command with since this
incident began and for all of their help and resources and ensuring that
the community is kept safe and we get *** bro back into custody as soon as
possible. We're asking for the public's help to please remain diligent and
notify us if you see anything suspicious and know that we will not
stop until the drill is back in custody and we will utilize every resource at
our disposal until that happens with that. I'm going to turn it over to
Lieutenant Ty Connors and he will discuss *** little bit about today's
operational plan. Thank you.
Thank you. Sheriff, Lieutenant Hunter is with the county sheriff's office
again right now in our first operational period when it comes to
under Unified command.
Unified Command, we have Plaster County Sheriff's Office in Roseville as the
incident commanders. Part of our goal is to effectively use all the mutual
aid resources that are coming in. As the sheriff stated, we have over 200
officers out in the field, actively searching for *** drill during this
time. We are setting up our plans when it comes up to search patterns, search
areas, perimeters and we're really going to focus all our details as far
as information coming in from the public as well. I do really highly
stress with the public into notifying if you have any information for us to
use. Please call our Plaster County tip line. Our tip line number is 9164091257.
Again, we want to make sure that letting the public know to be diligent
and notify us if they have any information. Again,
overall, with all the agencies that are involved, our key focus is the app.
Does anyone
have any questions
when you said 24 hours at the hospital. What does that mean? Exactly. Are there,
how many guards are there guards or has he changed it? What does that exactly
mean 24 hours at the hospital since he is in custody? That he has ***, ***
deputy assigned to that inmate 24 hours?
And so is he normally shackled handcuffs? What would that look like?
And as part of the investigation and our internal investigation, we want to
ensure that all policies and procedures were followed when
she mentioned.
And again, under the investigation, we'll find out, make sure that all the
information as far as what the value chains and everything else will follow
out. But again, our key focus again is trying to get the investigation and
trying to apprehend
you need any help from the outside with the escape. Again, that would be part
of that investigation. Again, we're really early end to this. And so we
have *** lot of information that we're trying to process. And again, we're
just looking out for the public and also with our agencies to apprehend the
***. When you,
how do you as the public, that there will not be another dangerous situation,
we'll notify them. Once again, we'll ensure the public once we have the
apprehension and we'll let the public know what's happening. Again. We do all
that we can to keep the public safe.
So again, that's part of the end of the investigation when you said that there
was
*** you know,
again, that's part of that information we are trying to gather is setting up
our search and everything is just trying to get all that
collection put together to go out and find that.
I'm sorry, I apologize that we came *** bit late considering his background.
You have *** guy that's suspected of murdering someone, taking hostages,
shooting elderly people. Was there more than one guard that was assigned to him
inside the hospital for whatever procedure he was done? So again, that's
part of that under our investigation part, we'll let everyone know once
we're done and let everyone know what's happening with the generically speaking,
if you have *** murder suspect in custody and he's being seen for any
kind of medical treatment, generically how many deputies would be assigned to
that person. So again, it's *** case by case basis, but right now, I'm not
going to comment on that right now. And can I assume that they're shackled up,
you said belly? So they have to, well, again, what I want to do is push out to
the public, reach out to us, give us information that we have. We'll provide
as much information as we possibly can. I guess what I want to know is how is
he able to escape? That's under investigation right now. We'll let them
know later on. Thank you.
Thank you all for being here and we really appreciate you helping us get
the word out again. We want to stress our number one goal for every single
agency that is helping us today here in Placer County is to find this fugitive
and bring him back into custody.