A fugitive for nearly five months, convicted New Orleans murderer Derrick Groves is headed back to Louisiana after he appeared in a Georgia courtroom on Thursday morning and waived extradition, according to Fox5 Atlanta.

Groves, 28, was the last of 10 inmates who escaped from the New Orleans jail in May to be captured. He blew a kiss to a camera after his arrest Wednesday afternoon at a home on Honeysuckle Lane in southwest Atlanta.

Groves faces a pair of life prison sentences from a 2024 conviction on two murder counts when he returns to New Orleans, in addition to expected charges related to the brazen jailbreak.

He was booked Wednesday into the Fulton County jail as a fugitive. According to the news station , Groves told a judge he wants to go home.

Groves and nine other inmate

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