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SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas — A capital murder suspect and convicted drug offender who escaped from a jail in East Texas have spent a rainy night on the run.

The Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office says Brian Allen Tucker and John Marlin King remain at large Wednesday. The air and ground search that ended late Tuesday night resumed at dawn as more rain fell in the area.

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“They squeezed their way through the fence somehow,” said Sergeant Brad Cummings, a spokesman for the Hopkins County Sheriff’s office in Sulphur Springs, Texas, about 80 miles northeast of Dallas told Reuters.

The inmates fled the jail in Sulphur Springs by scaling a fence or slipping through a gap in a perimeter fence Tuesday morning. Sulphur Springs is about 75 miles northeast of Dallas.

Tucker of Sulphur Springs faces trial for the slaying of Bobby Riley, who was strangled in 2011 with a shoelace before being robbed. King, of Cumby, pleaded guilty last month to drug possession as a habitual offender and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

“We do not know if they have weapons of any kind at this point, but they should be considered extremely dangerous,” Cummings told Reuters.

Since the inmates have apparently ditched their prison uniforms, it’s possible that they are running around in just their prison issued boxer shorts.

“It could be that they’re possibly just in their underwear,” Cummings told Reuters.