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Authorities are investigating whether one of the two inmates still on the run after last month’s New Orleans jail escape<\/a> posted a social media video, claiming the jailbreak wasn’t his idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 16, a total of 10 inmates escaped the Orleans Parish jail<\/a> through a hole in a wall left by a ripped-away toilet and sink unit, officials said. Police have since captured eight of the men, leaving both Antoine Massey, 32, and Derrick Groves, 27, at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Instagram video posted Sunday, June 1 appears to have been from Massey, according to the\u00a0New Orleans Times-Picayune<\/a>\u00a0and local station\u00a0WVUE<\/a>. In the video, a man who identified himself as Massey dismissed rumors that he was the mastermind behind the jail break. NOLA.com, a web site operated by the Times-Picayune, quoted a deputy U.S. marshal and another source, confirming authorities were investigating the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screen grab taken from a handout CCTV video shows inmates pulling a sliding cell door in the Orleans Parish Justice Center, in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 16, 2025.\u00a9\u00a0ORLEANS PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE \/ via REUTERS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019m one of the ones that was let out of Orleans Parish jail where they said I escaped, right?\u201d he said speaking directly to the camera wearing the same facial tattoos as Massey. “They say that I broke out. I didn\u2019t break out. I was let out.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The man in the video also proclaimed his innocence and said he fled the Orleans Parish jail to avoid being charged for a crime he did not commit, NOLA.com reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The reason why I left the jail is because these people were trying to give me a life sentence in both parishes for something that I did not do,” the man said in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The post, which is no longer available as of Monday, June 2, was shared by an account named “@_007chucky” that is no longer searchable, WVUE reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA TODAY has reached out to the officials with the U.S Marshall, FBI and the New Orleans Police Department for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man rejects statements from arrested jail maintenance worker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The man in the video also said not to believe jail maintenance worker Sterling Williams<\/a>, 33, the NOLA.com reported. Williams told police one of the inmates threatened to stab him with a homemade knife known as a “shank,” according to an arrest affidavit for Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WVUE reported that the man said in the video that he never tried to “shank” Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams was arrested in connection with the prison escape and is accused of being in contact with the escapees alongside several others. He is charged with being a principal to simple escape and malfeasance in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams allegedly admitted he shut off the water to a cell after one of the inmates requested so, allowing them to escape through the ripped out a toilet and sink unit, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Kennedy, a lawyer for Sterling Williams, told USA TODAY last week that his client didn\u2019t know about the escape plan and only shut down the water because of a clogged toilet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why was Massey in jail?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Massey is charged with domestic abuse involving strangulation. He’s also charged with theft of a motor vehicle<\/a>, Orleans Parish records show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A warrant for his arrest in St. Tammany Parish shows he is wanted for second-degree rape, second-degree kidnapping, domestic abuse involving strangulation and violation of a protective order involving battery stemming from a November incident, a spokesperson for the parish sheriff’s office confirmed with USA TODAY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is wanted alongside Groves, who last October was convicted of two charges of second-degree murder and two charges of attempted second-degree murder in connection to a 2018 Mardi Gras shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three of the escaped inmates were recaptured by the end May 16, the same day as the escape. A week later, two more were found. Within two weeks, authorities had caught all except Groves and Massey. Authorities are offering a $50,000 reward for anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest of either of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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