A Bastrop County man, who in November was accused of assaulting a state game warden and was wanted in Live Oak County on several felony warrants, died last week in a shootout with police, officials said.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Jake Russell Childers, died Dec. 26 after "gunfire was exchanged" when authorities caught up with the 36-year-old in Atascosa County after having escaped two days earlier from a police car while being transported from a hospital in George West to the Live Oak County Jail, media reported.

Live Oak County Sheriff Larry Busby told KVUE-TV that Childers escaped from a police car window. He was wearing a belly chain and leg shackles at the time of his escape.

"It turns out he had managed to get the window open," Busby said. "And the reason for that is we just got the car out of the body shop and apparently they had deactivated the window locks whenever they were working on it. And the officer … didn’t think to check that because the windows are always locked."

Childers stole a truck and guns from a home in George West, media reported. The city of George West on Dec. 25 said on Facebook that residents should stay on high alert and to keep homes and vehicles locked as a countywide search for Childers was underway.

The next day, officers found Childers in Atascosa County and was killed in a shootout.

Childers had been accused of assaulting a game warden in Bastrop County on Nov. 13 after the state officer tried arresting Childers on suspicion of illegal hunting.

Texas Parks and Wildlife said Childers assaulted the game warden during a struggle where Childers was resisting arrest. Childers fled into thick wood nearby and was on the run for two days after an unsuccessful manhunt in the area.

He was arrested in Austin on Nov. 15, along with his sister Dusty Lynn McBride, who was accused of helping Childers get away from police.

According to an obituary for Childers, graveside service will be held Wednesday at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Whitsett.