Louisiana inmates escape by breaking through jail wall, one remains at large

Keith Eli, 24, of Opelousas, remains on the run after escaping a southwestern Louisiana jail on Wednesday. St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office/AP

One inmate remains on the run after a group of three removed mortar and concrete blocks from a jail wall in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, to make their escape this week, the sheriff’s office said Friday.

The inmates, two of whom were being held on charges of a violent nature, used sheets and other items to scale the outer wall of the jail, drop onto the first-floor roof and lower themselves to the ground on Wednesday, St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz wrote in a social media post earlier this week.

This week’s incident marks the latest brazen escape from a Louisiana jail this year, after 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail in