Bexar County jail leadership was informed that an inmate had the use of his legs and was likely manipulating the system more than a year before he leapt from a wheelchair and escaped from the Bexar County Justice Center following a 2024 sentencing hearing, records recently obtained by KSAT Investigates show.

Antoine Foster, 32, jumped out of the wheelchair on Oct. 31, 2024, struck a sheriff’s deputy and ran from the courthouse sallyport, leading to a multi-agency manhunt.

Foster was eventually recaptured along the San Antonio River.

‘It appears that Inmate Foster may be intentionally manipulating the system'

Foster’s brief run to freedom occurred shortly after a jury sentenced him to life in prison, without the possibility of parole, in an attempted capital murder of a police officer c

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