Here’s the latest on authorities desperate search to find a mentally unstable accused killer that is loose in Washington:
Anthony Garver, who escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital Wednesday night, was last seen near Spokane at his parents house Thursday, which he fled when his mother called 911, local station Q13 Fox reported.
He was one of two men who escaped from a troubled psychiatric facility in Washington state. One escapee was caught Thursday, but the second fugitive, who was accused of murder but found mentally incompetent to stand trial, is still on the loose.
According Snohomish County Assistant Prosecutor Craig Matheson, Garver was charged in 2013 with tying a 20-year-old woman to her bed with electrical cords, stabbing her 24 times in the chest and slashing her throat, Fox News is reporting.
Officers picked up Mark Alexander Adams without incident in Des Moines, Washington, about 20 minutes away from Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital, Lakewood police Lt. Chris Lawler said.
Lawler says Adams, who was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault in 2014, was recognized and police detained him. Detectives will interview him.
Adams got on a bus Wednesday night after he and Anthony Garver, 28, fled Western State Hospital, south of Tacoma, police said. Adams asked how to get to the airport, and he was caught in a town just south of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
The escape is the latest in a litany of problems at the 800-bed hospital, south of Tacoma.
U.S. regulators have repeatedly cited the facility over safety concerns for both staff and patients, including violent assaults, leading to threats to cut millions in federal funds to the facility. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently extended the hospital’s deadline for fixing the problems from April 1 to May 3.
A federal judge also has said the hospital has failed to provide timely competency services to mentally ill people charged with crimes.
Garver, who was arrested on suspicion of murder in 2013, remains at large. Both men were being treated for mental illnesses by court order when they escaped on foot. They had been found mentally incompetent to stand trial.
A bus driver picked up a man he believes was Garver around 6 p.m., Lawler said. A couple of hours later, he picked up a man he believes was Adams. The driver told authorities that Adams was interested in going to SeaTac, home to the Seattle area’s airport. Police have requested video from the transit agency.
Garver’s real last name is Burke, but he goes by Garver and also has used the alias Deryk Garver, Lawler said. Police are urging anyone who spots Garver to keep away and contact authorities.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
Re Anthoney Garver. The media speaks in his behalf, write his story, but he has no voice to tell his own story himself. Many brilliants individuals were committed against their will toPsychiatrist hospitals and mental health institution, for political reason, or for legal matter. More likely, psychiatrists use their power to force patients to poisoned medication , run experiment on them, to bring them to the point of insanity. Back in 1992, I was fighting a chatholic school for child abuse, while living with abusive husband. With the help of the Nuns to cover up for child abuse,my husband used his position as a psychiatrist, and committed me against my will. As I tried to run to my sister’s house nearby, a police chased me, forced me in his car, delivered me to Bayonne Hospital were I faced a monster psychiatrist name James Kidden.They kept me hostage, for one week. On Oct 13/92, which was the day to receive American citizenship, I was delivered to a mentall health institution name carrier foundation in summer set NJ. It was a place of Hill, were u see victims of justice system. I was falsely committed to cover up for child abuse in saint Mary school, and to help my husband to get child custody for 2 kids he never loved. I met many people with the same story, they tortured in carrier foundation, they forced into medication that caused brain damage, and death. Because of that poison that givin to them, they became disoriented, have vision loss, shaking, and many horrible symptoms under the name of psychiatric Med. When my blessed family, and my beloved sister, succeeded to get me court date, to release me from carrier foundation, the assigned doctor name Donnalan, done everything to cancel the court date, and when he couldnt, he forced me into Med that almost killed me, I fainted on the floor, lost conscious. But God gave me life, and next day Judge Thomas Tilt discharged me and saved me from all terrorists, and monsters. Being in mental health hospital, did not mean that the person has mentall illness. I can’t forget the wards of judge Thomas Tilt when he said” This case disturbed me…this case annoyed me”. He was one of a kind judge, I lived because of him. The journey didn’t end there, despite lawsuit was filed for false imprisonment, medical malpractice,slander, it never proceeded, due fraud and corruption, I got a monster Judge name John Grossi. who guaranteed his work to destroy me. Money buy justice! The rest is history.
Get to learn about police corruption, and discrimination. On oct 24/2015, I was assaulted by a Latino security guard in 2nd ave thrift shop. He was constantly harassing a 67 senior citizen with MH/MR. At that day, I got agitated to see the security guard harassing her again , checking her bag that was full of adults diaper. As I finished paying, In my way out, I asked him “why you constantly harassing her”. He turned against me, asked to take me to the back of the store to check me, and kept chasing me, getting closer, till I felt uncomfortable ,and pushed him back. He assaulted me till I got dizzy, and fell on the floor, then he dragged me to the back of the store, threatening me to put me in jail. In my entire life, I didn’t experience anything like that even among lowest class of people. I have to call 911 for help, but they turned against me, mistreated me, and didn’t file a police report to protect the guard. Lawyers refused to take my case because police report wasn’t file at the store, or at the hospital . Can you tell me what’s going on in this country!