Tresa Baldas

Detroit Free Press

A teenage fugitive who managed to slip away from a Detroit parole office while in handcuffs and shackles this week has been captured, state authorities have announced.

It took a little more than a day to find the teen, who fled after being questioned about a carjacking.

According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, 19-year-old Rowvontae Walker was captured sometime Thursday night, though details of his arrest are not yet available.

The MDOC alerted the public via Twitter.

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"We have apprehended Walker, and he is now in custody," the MDOC tweeted at around 11 p.m. Thursday.

This was some 30 hours after Walker — in broad daylight — exited a rear door at a Detroit parole office on Lawton Street, where he was being held for questioning in connection with a carjacking. According to the MDOC, the incident started when Walker arrived for a regular check-in at the parole office off Grand River near I-94 and I-96. He had been on parole since 2013 for an unarmed robbery — for which he served two years in prison. But during his check-in, authorities started to question him about a carjacking, and decided to put him in shackles in handcuffs.

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Still, he managed to walk out of the building, triggering a public alert about the daylight getaway.

Contact Tresa Baldas at tbaldas@freepress.com.