An inmate who tried to escape jail on Rikers Island on July 26 was found early the next day, New York City’s Department of Corrections (DOC) says.
Twenty-four-year-old Naquan Hill, who was being incarcerated on burglary charges, jumped the fence at the Anna M. Kross Center Jail on Wednesday evening at around 7:30 p.m.
It wasn’t until the inmates went back inside and corrections officers did a head count that they realized someone was missing.
The jail complex was put on lockdown while staff searched the island, which is connected to Queens by a narrow bridge. Officials did not rule out the possibility that Hill had crossed the East River and reached the opposite shore.
A map of Rikers Island jail with a pin at Anna M. Kross Center Jail. Screenshot via Google Maps
