Police searching for Fort Drum soldier after chase

Search for W. Va. soldier who led NY cops on chase

Associated Press

RICHFIELD, N.Y. — A 20-year-old soldier believed to be armed and despondent remains on the run since he escaped from military custody and led police on a multi-county car chase in central New York, police said Friday.

State Trooper Jack Keller said there had been no confirmed sightings of Russell C. Marcum as of Friday afternoon. He said police using dogs and helicopters had broadened the territory they were searching for the camouflage-clad soldier from West Virginia, who they think has a handgun and might be suicidal.

Marcum's parents had just bailed him out of a Jefferson County jail where he was held on a burglary charge when he assaulted a soldier escorting him back to Fort Drum on Thursday night and escaped in his parents' SUV, Keller said. A chase through Madison, Oneida and Otsego counties ended when police damaged the car tires with a spike strip. Marcum then ran into woods near Richfield Springs, south of Utica.
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