The US Marshals Service successfully apprehended Shane Pryor, the 17-year-old escaped prisoner, on Sunday night in Philadelphia, concluding a five-day pursuit.
Officials announced the custody event just after 6:30 pm on Sunday, reporting that Pryor was taken into custody at the intersection of 3rd Street and Roosevelt Boulevard, situated between the Feltonville and Olney neighborhoods of the city.
US Marshals carried out the arrest on a SEPTA bus at the mentioned intersection in North Philadelphia, stopping the bus for the apprehension on Sunday evening, as detailed by officials. US Marshals Service Supervisory Deputy Rob Clark noted, “We did a thorough pat down, like I said, but there was no cockiness, but I think he knew the jig was up.”
Pryor had been on the run since Wednesday morning when he escaped custody outside the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Clark disclosed that Pryor was found in possession of a handcuff key at the time of his arrest.
Following his arrest, Pryor will be transported to a secure facility where he will await trial for the 2020 murder of Tanya Harris, according to officials.
Pryor in Custody Since 2020 for Holmesburg Murder
Since 2020, Pryor and a co-defendant have been in custody in connection with a murder in the Holmesburg section of Northeast Philadelphia.
The investigation suggests that on the night of October 10, 2020, Pryor shot Tanya Harris in the head after he and another male attempted to solicit sex from her.
Harris’ body was discovered in an alcove in the alley behind a business on Torresdale Avenue near Shelmire Street after 10 p.m. that night, according to an affidavit of probable cause in the case.
Surveillance footage from a nearby business revealed the woman with a boy in a Gap-branded hoodie around 6 pm about 50 minutes later, the woman was seen on video with two boys in an alcove behind the business on Torresdale Avenue—the same location where her body was eventually found.
Approximately 10 minutes later, the two boys were observed running from the area and later returning, seemingly to search it. Pryor, identified as the boy in the Gap hoodie, was implicated by police.
Five days after the incident, Pryor was stopped in the neighborhood, provided officers with a fake name, and attempted to flee.
With permission from Pryor’s mother, investigators spoke to him.
Pryor admitted to soliciting sex from Harris but claimed that another man, between the ages of 25-30 and dressed in all black, was the one who shot her.
Pryor asserted that he did not know the man’s name.
Investigators later discovered that the man seen with Pryor on surveillance footage was around 14 or 15 years old, not an adult.