Timothy Chappelle kicked out the passenger side window and cage of the van and ran, authorities said.
A Texas inmate who escaped a police van was caught on video running away from officers and then being apprehended.
Timothy Chappelle was being taken to a different jail by a Smith County Sheriff's Office detention officer in Tyler, Texas, on Jan. 3, when he kicked out the passenger side window and cage of the van, the sheriff department's public information officer Larry Christian told CBS News.A woman was able to film Chappelle running through a parking lot and hopping a fence, with his hands still seemingly in handcuffs.
Her video also shows a sheriff's officer running after Chappelle as well as the van, with the cage that had been covering the window askew. The TikTok user shared a part two of the video, showing Chappelle being apprehended on the front law of a house.
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