US police hunt white supremacist after armed jailbreak

Los Angeles: US police are hunting a white supremacist who was sprung from custody in a shoot out at an Idaho hospital that left three prison staff wo...

Los Angeles: US police are hunting a white supremacist who was sprung from custody in a shoot-out at an Idaho hospital that left three prison staff wounded, they said Thursday.

Skylar Meade was being escorted out of a medical facility after receiving treatment when gunfire erupted, seemingly from inside the hospital's emergency department.

Boise Police Department said an attacker -- named as Nicholas Umphenour -- shot two prison officers, leaving one critically wounded before fleeing with Meade in a car.

Responding officers initially mistook a prison staffer for a target, and opened fire, wounding him.

"This brazen, violent and apparently coordinated attack on Idaho Department of Corrections personnel, to facilitate an escape of a dangerous inmate, was carried out right in front of the Emergency Department," said Boise Police Chief Ron Winegar.