WLOX.com - The News for South MississippiEscapee ends run with high speed chase

Johnny Hall's five days of freedom ended Wednesday with a dangerous high speed chase in Bogalusa, Louisiana. Hall is the inmate who escaped last week while attending his father's wake in Picayune.

The tire tracks are still visible in and around Kathy Burr's yard. Law enforcers set up a roadblock here after learning Johnny Hall was back in Pearl River County. The wanted man showed up just a little while later.

"He was, like, trying to get around the cop. And he was almost, I thought he was going to turn over, cause he was going so fast trying to get away from everybody," said Burr.

Hall sped past law enforcers and headed north toward Highway 43.

"At one point, the deputies were doing 120 and he was leaving them, driving reckless," Pearl River County Sheriff David Allison said. "He side swiped a car up north at Fortenberry's, and was running people off the road."

Most of Allison's deputies joined the chase, which lasted 30 minutes and covered 30 miles. It finally ended across the Louisiana state line in Bogalusa.

"When he approached the roadblock, he kind of ran the vehicle off a big ditch there and existed the vehicle and ran into the woods. He ran up on a creek and when he got to the creek, the officer saw him take the weapon out of his belt loop and throw the weapon to the ground. He got him in custody," explained Allison.

Hall's alleged accomplice, Jenna Rhea, was in the passenger seat. The sheriff said after Hall got out, she tried to crawl over to the driver's side in an attempt to drive off. Deputies were able to get Rhea out of the car.

"He put a lot of people in danger trying to get away. And like I said, if we were doing 120 and he was leaving them, he had to be doing 130, or 140, or better. On a two lane highway like that, it's pretty dangerous. The good Lord was with us and nobody got hurt," said the sheriff.

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