Homicide suspect Holly Marie Colino managed to briefly escape from custody after being arrested Monday in Henrietta, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office confirmed Tuesday night.

Colino was taken into custody Monday after an incident in the parking lot of the Sticky Lips barbecue restaurant on Jefferson Road in which she allegedly pointed a gun at the head of a restaurant employee.

Colino is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the shooting death Friday of Megan Dix, 33, of Lyndonville, Orleans County.

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Colino was taken into custody for the first time Monday at the Holiday Inn on Jefferson Road next door to Sticky Lips. The initial menacing call came just after 5 p.m.

Colino was found at the Holiday Inn at 8:11 p.m. She was taken to the sheriff's Zone B substation, 245 Summit Point Drive, Henrietta.

Cpl. John Helfer, spokesman for the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, said Colino, who is very slight and lithe, "slipped a handcuff and managed to get away" from the substation.

She was handcuffed and taken to into a room at the substation. She escaped while being processed.

"As the suspect was taken into custody, she bolted from the investigators," Monroe County Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn said during an earlier Tuesday press conference.

O'Flynn and Helfer said she was apprehended after a "short chase," about 100 yards from where she initially fled. The chase was short, but the time she was missing was not.

Helfer said by email Wednesday afternoon that, "Deputies were looking for Colino for a little over two hours when they found her in the parking lot of a nearby restaurant."

Helfer did not respond to a request Wednesday morning for further clarification on the escape. Helfer said there is an internal investigation into what happened.

They needed to use a helicopter to help find her after she fled the substation near West Henrietta and Lehigh Station roads.

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Monroe County Undersheriff Drew Forsythe said Colino didn't know the Sticky Lips employee before their brief encounter.

"There was a brief conversation and she pointed a weapon at her and then took off on foot," Forsythe said.

He added that it was not a robbery attempt, because nothing was demanded and nothing was taken.

"There was nothing said," Forsythe said. "It was a conversation. There were no threats."

Forsythe said investigators are still trying to determine why Colino returned to the Rochester area last week after years of living in Arizona.

"She gave us reasons why she came home. We’re still running those down," he said. "Why she was where she was the other day, I don’t know if we’ll have an answer for that."

Todd Baxter, the Democratic candidate for sheriff, said Wednesday he put in a Freedom of Information request for documents relating to Colino's brief escape. He connected it with the 2011 incident when two inmates at the Monroe County Jail escaped by sawing through the steel bars on their windows.

"The public deserves to have the full story on this alarming event," he said in a statement. "This is yet another troubling incident in a disturbing pattern of failed leadership by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office that threatens the safety of the public."

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