CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW)- Clarksville Police were made aware of a case of mistaken identity on Sunday morning after an earlier report of four juveniles who escaped from a Metro Nashville detention center being spotted in Clarksville.
There was a regional ‘be on the lookout’ issued by law enforcement and it was initially believed that four juveniles who escaped from a juvenile detention center Saturday evening were spotted at the Trenton Road Exxon around 2:42 a.m.
Hours later, Metro Nashville PD traveled to Clarksville and reviewed the video footage at the Exxon and determined it was NOT the escapees from Nashville.
According to a Metro Nashville Police Department news release, a team of MNPD officers is actively searching for four escaped teens, including accused murderers Decorrius Wright, 16, and Morris Marsh, 17, who ran out of the Juvenile Detention Center downtown at approximately 9:44 p.m. Saturday.
Also escaping were Brandon Caruthers, 17, and Calvin Howse, 15. Caruthers is now on the TBI Most Wanted list.
Both Caruthers and Howse have armed robbery and gun possession charges in their arrest histories. All four are considered to be dangerous. Anyone with information is asked to immediately contact the Emergency Communications Center at 615-862-8600.
It appears at least 35 minutes elapsed before the Metro Nashville Police Department was notified of the escape. Officers were told that the four were on work detail when their staff supervisor left them to address a fight at another location inside the facility. They managed to get onto an elevator and used staff protocols to ride to the ground floor, where they went through a series of doors and exited to the outside.
Wright is accused in the February 7 murder of Kyle Yorlets, 24, on Torbett Street in Nashville. Marsh is accused in the April 8 murder of Charles Easley, 19, on Lemont Drive in Nashville. Caruthers has been transferred to adult court on an August 2018 armed robbery case from Apache Trail in South Nashville. Howse was last arrested November 21 on Dickerson Pike on charges of auto theft and gun possession.
