Dragnet out for fugitive and wife [View All]

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Makes me think of Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw, somehow ...

(CNN) -- A statewide manhunt was under way Tuesday in Tennessee for an escaped prisoner and his wife, a former prison nurse, after she sprung him from his armed escort in a hail of gunfire outside a courthouse in Kingston, authorities said.

One guard was shot and died from his wounds.

Kingston Police Chief Jim Washam said authorities were looking for George C. Hyatte, 34, and his wife, Jennifer Lyn Hyatte, 31. One or both may be wounded, he said.

Washam described George Hyatte as African-American, 5 feet 5 and 140 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and tattoos on his upper body. His wife is white, 5 feet 4 and 142 pounds, with red hair and hazel eyes, he said.

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