The prisoner sat on the roof in his underwear, smoked a cigarette, and cried for an hour before he was taken back into custody.
Devontay Jenkins, 18, was being escorted from his prison cell to court Tuesday morning when he requested a bathroom break, the New Orleans Advocate reported.
He then slipped behind the outdoor toilet and ran up a stairwell to the roof of the Old Parish Prison.
Jenkins ran up to the guard tower on top of the building and sat down on the ledge, a spokesperson for the New Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office told the Advocate.
“He just ran up the tower and perched himself on this raised roof,” Stelly said. “He’s got one foot over the ledge.”
Photographs showed Jenkins then took off his orange jumpsuit until it hung off the shackles around his ankles.
Emergency responders quickly reached the guard tower near Jenkins around 8 a.m. local time.
Negotiators spoke with Jenkins for nearly an hour before they were able to safely remove him from the ledge.
The teenager sat on the roof crying and speaking with social workers through the window.
At 8:53 AM negotiators offered the inmate a cigarette and, when he was finished, pulled him off the ledge by his arm and underwear.
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