Police still hunt for murderer who escaped

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Authorities searched Sunday for a convicted murderer who escaped while being transferred from a halfway house to the State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning.
Gerald Adams, 39, also known as Gerald Small, was serving 10-to-20-year sentence for third-degree murder in the August 1987 shooting death of an unarmed security guard, according to police and the Department of Corrections.
Adams escaped while corrections officers were moving him from a halfway house in which participants work during the day and return to the facility in the evening, said halfway house director Kenneth D. Ehus.
Adams struggled with the officers and managed to get away, Ehus said. An officer pursued him but was unable to catch him. Nobody was hurt.
Adams was one of four men arrested in the 1987 death of Curtis Jackson, 25, of Sewickley, during a robbery of a 7-Eleven store in the Pittsburgh area.
Adams and Charles Jackson pleaded guilty to reduced charges. Reginald Worthy was convicted of first-degree murder. Larone R. Williams, described by police as the driver of the getaway car, was convicted of second-degree murder.
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