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One of three inmates who escaped a Louisiana jail by prying away concrete blocks remains at large three days after the breakout.

Keith Eli, 24, charged with second-degree murder, is being pursued; a second escapee was captured Friday and another died by suicide Thursday.

The escape marks the second major jailbreak in Louisiana this year, after 10 inmates fled a New Orleans facility in May.

OPELOUSAS, La. — Authorities hunted Saturday for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall.

“We would prefer that he surrender himself peaceably,” St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz said in a statement, “but we

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