After running handcuffed from a courtroom and jumping off a second-story balcony, a Utah County jail inmate is recovering from a head injury, police said Thursday.
The 35-year-old inmate — one of several who had been transported to the Spanish Fork courthouse — was sitting in a second-story courtroom during a hearing for a misdemeanor charge Monday morning, Spanish Fork police Lt. Matt Johnson said Thursday.
Surveillance video from the court shows the inmate stand up at 9:24 a.m., and, with a waist chain wrapped around him and handcuffs on is wrists, he runs toward the back of the courtroom and out the door used by the public.