West Virginia Soldier Escapes Military Custody

{West Virginia}...Friday, police searched for 20 year old Russell C. Marcum, a soldier from Morgantown, West Virginia, who had escaped from military custody and led police on a multi-county car chase in central New York. State Trooper Jack Keller says police used dogs and helicopters in their search for Marcum, who is believed to be armed and suicidal. Marcum's parents had just bailed him out of a Jefferson County jail where he was held on a burglary charge when he assaulted a soldier escorting him back to Fort Drum on Thursday night, and he escaped in his parents' SUV. A chase through Madison, Oneida and Otsego counties ended when police damaged the car tires with a spike strip. Marcum then ran into woods near Richfield Springs, south of Utica.