Man tries to flee courthouse after murder conviction

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) - A northern Indiana man broke away from officers after jurors recommended that he serve life in prison on a murder conviction and briefly eluded them before he was caught hiding inside the courthouse.

Thirty-year-old Tyrice Halliburton of Bristol made the escape attempt Thursday evening after an Elkhart County jury reached the sentence recommendation for stabbing 23-year-old Sheena Kiska more than 50 times in 2008.

Bristol Town Marshal Mike Swallow tells The Goshen News that Halliburton never made it outside the building.

The Elkhart Truth reports that Halliburton got away from deputies leading him back to jail and was found hiding in a women's bathroom in a basement office after a failed attempt to get out through an emergency exit.

Kiska was Halliburton's neighbor in a Bristol apartment complex.