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Candler County escapee caught in Florida
Man charged in Metter shooting
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Robert Williamson
A “dangerous” escapee on the loose for more than a month after escaping from the Candler County Jail was captured Wednesday night in Florida, police said. Robert Lee Williamson, 36, of Palm Bay, Fla., escaped less than a week after he was arrested in early August in the shooting of a Metter man. On Aug. 7, he escaped through a hole in a shower wall in jail.
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