Chardon High shooter TJ Lane escapes from prison

LIMA, Ohio - Chardon High School shooter T.J. Lane has escaped from prison in Lima, according to the Lima post of the State Highway Patrol.

Lane,19, was one of three inmates who escaped from the Allen Correctional Institution at 7:45 p.m. Thursday. One of the inmates was captured.

Lane and another inmate, Clifford Opperud, 45, remain at large.

Wearing a T-shirt with 'killer' scrawled across it, smirking and gesturing obscenely, Lane was sentenced March 20, 2013, to life in prison without parole.

Lane had pleaded guilty on the anniversary of the Feb. 27, 2012, attack at Chardon High School, about 25 miles east of Cleveland.

When relatives of those killed addressed the court during sentencing, Lane stared with a smirk on his face.

The mother of victim Daniel Parmertor, 16, called Lane a 'vile coward' and 'a pathetic excuse for a human being,' wishing him a slow, painful death. Dina Parmertor also said she has nightmares, and her family has been physically sick because of the crimes.

'From now on, he will only be a killer,' she said, as Lane's smile widened. 'I want him to feel my anger toward him.'

T.J. Lane unbuttons his shirt during sentencing Tuesday in Chardon, Ohio.(Photo: Duncan Scott, AP)

Holly Walczak expressed her hatred of the shooter. Her son Nick Walczak, now 18, was shot four times and is paralyzed.

Before the case went to adult court, a juvenile court judge ruled that Lane was mentally competent to stand trial despite evidence that he suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies. Investigators have said he admitted to the shooting but said he didn't know why he did it.

'It was something I chose to do,' Lane told deputies at the time.

In sentencing Lane, Judge David Fuhry of Geauga County Common Pleas Court noted that Lane had exhibited a lack of compassion, had no remorse and knew he was doing wrong. Fuhry described the shootings in Chardon High's cafeteria where students were waiting before school as a 'merciless rampage. ... We haven't been provided a clear motive or even a murky one.'

Prosecutors say Lane took a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the school and fired 10 shots at a group of students in the cafeteria. Daniel Parmertor and Demetrius Hewlin, both 16, and Russell King Jr., 17, were killed.

Contributing: Ryan Haidet, WKYC-TV, Cleveland, and

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