- The escapee’s full name is Ernesto Alfredo Piñón de la Cruz.
- He is one of as many as 25 prisoners who escaped in the armed assault on the state prison in Chihuahua, in the Mexican city of Juárez, near the U.S. border.
- Ten guards, seven inmates and two of the attacker were killed in the incident that began at about 7 a.m. Sunday local time.
- The attack was carried out by heavily armed men aboard armored vehicles.
