A woman awaiting trial in Austin for allegedly killing a professional cyclist in 2022 briefly escaped custody on Wednesday, according to media reports.
The incident happened as deputies were escorting Armstrong back to a patrol unit. She ran about a block to a neighborhood in South Austin but was found and detained by deputies, the reports state.
reported she remained in the eyesight of deputies through the ordeal. The Statesman reported she was taken to a hospital, but details about injuries are unknown., who had been in Austin for a cycling event when she was killed. According to an affidavit, Wilson had met with her ex-boyfriend and cyclist Colin Strickland, the then-current boyfriend to Armstrong, during the trip.
On May 11, 2022, Wilson was found bleeding and unconscious from multiple gunshot wounds inside a home in East Austin. Surveillance footage captured Armstrong’s black Jeep Grand Cherokee outside the home at the time of Wilson’s death, according to the affidavit. Armstrong sold that vehicle for $12,200 two days later and departed the Austin airport on May 14, 2022, the U.S. Marshals Service said.Authorities said she used a fraudulent passport to fly from Newark, New Jersey, to San Jose, Costa Rica, on May 18, 2022.and used several aliases as she moved around Costa Rica while trying to set herself up as a yoga instructor there.. However, the trial date was pushed back to Oct. 30, KVUE reported.
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