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Article: INMATE FACING LIFE IN PRISON ESCAPES CONVICTED KIDNAPPER USES FAKE GUN MADE OF PAPER TO BOLT FROM TACOMA COURTROOM.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 24, 2003
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Byline: JEFFREY M. BARKER P-I reporter
TACOMA -- Harold McCord Jr. was headed toward life in prison without parole.
That dead-end road, the result of a third-strike kidnapping conviction, was probably on the 36-year-old's mind yesterday as he sat at the courthouse after a related hearing.
He was unshackled and uncuffed, which is normal procedure for prisoners in a Pierce County courtroom. He had a fake handgun fashioned from cardboard and toilet paper tucked in his waistband, which is not.
It was 10:23 a.m. McCord made a run for it. Last night, he was still on the loose.
McCord's escape is by no means a first for Pierce ...