AUGUSTA, Ga. - Authorities are searching for a man convicted of murder in Fulton County who escaped from a transitional center in Augusta while on work release, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.

What we know:

Deputies said Stacy Huggins disappeared Thursday after reporting to a work assignment at 4337 Wilson Road in Hephzibah but never returned to the Augusta Transitional Center. Investigators believe he walked away from the work site during the day. The sheriff’s office posted about the escape Tuesday on Facebook.

Huggins, 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 136 pounds, was sentenced to life in prison for a 1990 murder in Fulton County, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. He has been incarcerated since July 19, 1990.

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