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 Police were searching a wooded area near Spokane, Washington, after an accused killer who escaped from a state psychiatric hospital showed up at his mother's home, authorities said. 
 
 Anthony Garver's mother called 911 after he showed up at her home Thursday afternoon, U.S. Marshals told NBC station KHQ. Law enforcement officers that included heavily-armed SWAT officers, K-9 units and helicopters searched the wooded area near the home. 
 
 "There's a lot of people on the ground looking, just trying to contain him in the area and see if we can locate him from where he left the house," Deputy U.S. Marshal Bob Doty said. 
 
 UPDATE: Anthony Garver is still on the loose. Deputies will be actively searching through the night. @KHQLocalNews pic.twitter.com/nuTfqebrIA — Patrick Erickson KHQ (@patrickerickson) April 8, 2016 
 
 Garver was one of two patients that escaped from the Western State Hospital in Lakewood, southwest of Tacoma, Wednesday night. The other escapee, Mark Alexander Adams, was taken into custody near Des Moines, Washington, earlier Thursday, officials said. 
 
 Garver was committed to the psychiatric facility two years ago after he was deemed not competent to stand trial after being accused of fatally stabbing a woman 24 times. 
 
 This undated photo provided by the Lakewood Police Department shows Anthony Garver. Mark Alexander Adams and Garver, described as dangerous, have escaped from Western State Hospital, a psychiatric facility, in Pierce County, south of Tacoma, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Lakewood Police Department via AP 
 
 Investigators believe Garver bought a bus ticket in Seattle to Spokane using cash and under the false name "John Anderson," Lakewood police Lt. Chris Lawler said. 
 
 Garver, 28, is 5 feet 8 inches tall, a stocky 250 pounds, and was last seen wearing a brown, faded sweatshirt and orange flip-flops, police said. Authorities are warning anyone spotting him to call 911 immediately. 
 
 Garver and Adams shared a room at the hospital and escaped through a locked window, the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services said. 
 
 "Initial thoughts are that the bolts on the window were tampered with over several months," the department said in a statement. 
 
 They were last seen during dinner at 6 p.m. Wednesday and were discovered missing at a 6:45 p.m. check, the department said. 
 
 Anthony Garver is seen purchasing a Greyhound bus ticket out of Seattle to Spokane on April 6, 2016. Lakewood Police Department 
 
 "The hospital is undergoing a complete safety review and plan to bring in outside experts to go through our facility," Carla Reyes, assistant director of the DSHS Behavioral Health Administration, said in a statement. 
 
 The Department of Social and Health Services said it was not aware of anyone escaping from the facility through a locked window before. A patient escaped in 2011 through an unlocked gym door and in 2009 by walking out of a sally port, the agency said. Both were later found. ||||| Federal and local authorities are searching for one of two men who escaped from Western State Hospital. He is considered a potential threat to the public. The other man was taken into police custody Thursday. 
 
 A man described as dangerous who escaped from the state psychiatric hospital in Lakewood was seen in the Spokane Valley area Thursday evening, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 Anthony Garver, 28, visited his parents’ house near Forker Road in East Valley, according to The Spokesman-Review. 
 
 After a massive search of the wooded area, Spokane County sheriff deputies and U.S. Marshals ended the operation before 8:30 p.m. and said they would resume Friday, the newspaper reports. Patrols would remain in the area. 
 
 Law enforcement has received information in the past that Garver may have a cache of undiscovered weapons hidden in the East Valley area, Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told The Spokesman-Review. 
 
 Hours before the spotting, police said they believe Garver — one of two men who escaped from Western State Hospital on Wednesday evening — bought a Greyhound bus ticket Wednesday night from Seattle to his hometown of Spokane. 
 
 The man has a history of making violent threats, and “has aspired to emulate” the Oklahoma City bomber, according to court records. 
 
 He has been described by police in the past as a survivalist who had threatened mass shootings and had possessed military-style weapons and explosives. 
 
 The last time he evaded authorities, in 2009, the search lasted a month before he was found in the woods. 
 
 Garver had been involuntarily committed at Western State since 2014, when he was deemed incompetent to stand trial on a murder charge in connection with the stabbing death of Phillipa S. Evans-Lopez in Lake Stevens in 2013. He is considered a threat to the public, and authorities urge anyone who sees him to keep a safe distance and call 911. 
 
 He and another man, Mark Alexander Adams, apparently climbed out a first-story window which had bolts that had been loosened. Adams was caught and taken into police custody without incident Thursday in Des Moines. 
 
 Lakewood police Lt. Chris Lawler said authorities notified “every mode of transportation,” local police departments and law-enforcement agencies, motels and hospitals about Garver’s escape. 
 
 A Pierce County bus driver told police he picked up Garver about 6 p.m. Wednesday near the hospital, traveling east. The man believed to be Garver might have gotten off at the Towne Center Transit Center in Lakewood, according to police. 
 
 Kris Evans, mother of the slain Evans-Lopez, told KOMO TV she’s scared. 
 
 She said she wasn’t pleased Garver ended up at Western State Hospital rather than prison, but was “content” he was locked up, at least. 
 
 “He’s out there among us, so not just my safety and family’s safety, but everybody’s safety” is at risk, she said. “He’s very dangerous.” 
 
 Garver, who may also go by Anthony Burke or Deryk Garver, is white and has long, curly brown hair and a beard or mustache. He is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 250 pounds, and was last seen wearing a brown, faded sweatshirt and orange flip-flops. 
 
 Escapee in custody 
 
 Adams, the other man who escaped, was captured about 10 a.m. Thursday in the 2200 block of Seventh Avenue South in Des Moines after a tip from someone who had seen his face in news coverage, police said. 
 
 “He had a calm demeanor and was taken into custody without incident,” said Bob Bohl, a Des Moines Police Department commander. “It was easy.” 
 
 Lakewood police said Adams traveled Wednesday night from Lakewood to the Federal Way Transit Center, where he asked how to get to the airport. Bohl said police did not know why Adams came to Des Moines. 
 
 He was captured near a church and elementary school. 
 
 Adams had been at Western State since June 2015. 
 
 How escape happened 
 
 The two men climbed out the window of a room in the facility’s locked civil ward and left together on foot, according to news releases from the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), which runs the hospital, and from Lakewood police. 
 
 The room was designed to house four patients, according to Kathy Spears, a DSHS spokeswoman, and other patients were in the room at the time of the escape. 
 
 The window, about 6 feet tall and 2½ feet wide, opens with a key, Spears wrote in an email. It wasn’t removed from its frame. Rather, loosened bolts allowed the window to pivot, with one side swinging out and the other swinging in, according to Spears. 
 
 The drop to the ground would be about 10 to 12 feet, Spears said. 
 
 The men had been last seen in the dining hall about 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to the DSHS news release. Hospital staff discovered that the patients were missing about 6:45 p.m. during an hourly patient-status check, but they didn’t contact Lakewood police until 7:16 p.m., Spears said. 
 
 DSHS isn’t aware of any previous incidents in which a patient escaped through a key-locked window, according to the agency’s news release. 
 
 The hospital is undertaking a safety review and will have outside experts check the facility, said Carla Reyes, assistant director of DSHS behavioral health administration, in the statement. 
 
 “We can never have too many fresh eyes reviewing a situation as serious as this,” Reyes said in prepared remarks. “As always, safety — for the public, staff and other patients — remains a priority.” 
 
 Both of the men who escaped were committed under a law that allows a judge to dismiss criminal charges and commit patients to a civil ward if “restoration services” haven’t worked and they are a danger to themselves or others. 
 
 Garver’s criminal history 
 
 The U.S. Marshals Service has a warrant out for Garver, according to police. 
 
 In a forensic mental-health-status report from June 2015, a state psychologist wrote that Garver met diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. He had limited memory, hallucinations and paranoid delusions. 
 
 The psychologist wrote Garver could not understand the charges or court procedures he faced and could not consult with his attorney with a “reasonable degree of rational understanding,” because of his symptoms. 
 
 In court records, police described Garver as a survivalist and loner who had threatened mass shootings, was anti-government, had possessed military-style weapons and explosives in the past, and had threatened to shoot anyone who confronted him. 
 
 “Anthony has wanted to create explosive devices in the past using fertilizer and has aspired to emulate Timothy McVeigh,” an officer wrote in probable-cause statements, referring to the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber. “Anthony has also studied and downloaded bomb making information from Anarchist Cookbook’s (sic) and has studied Al-Queda (sic) training manuals.” 
 
 Garver pleaded guilty to weapons charges in 2007 and was sentenced to prison. 
 
 After Garver failed to report to a work-release program in 2009, officials spent a month searching for him, finding him in the woods near Mount Spokane wearing camouflage clothing. 
 
 In 2010, Garver led the Montana Highway Patrol on a chase, at one point driving the wrong way on Interstate 90 and trying to hit cars head-on. 
 
 Western State’s troubles 
 
 Western State Hospital has been under scrutiny recently. Hundreds of employees at the facility have been assaulted by patients, which has led to millions in medical costs and thousands of missed days of work. 
 
 Federal regulators have issued the hospital a number of warnings and threatened to pull federal funding. 
 
 In 2011, a 26-year-old man who called himself “the son of Satan” and believed he could kill at random walked away from the facility. He was captured a day later. 
 
 In 2009, a 33-year-old patient left the hospital and vanished for two hours before Western State employees spotted him. He was apprehended by Lakewood police without incident. ||||| A Spokane County Sheriff's helicopter searches for Anthony Garver, 28, near Forker Road in Spokane Valley, Wash., Thursday, April 7, 2016. Garver, 28, escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital Wednesday night with Mark Alexander Adams, 58, a patient who had been accused of domestic assault... (Associated Press) 
 
 SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A man who escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital where he was held after being found too mentally ill to face charges that he tortured a woman to death was found hiding under a pile of debris in the woods and apprehended without incident. 
 
 Anthony Garver, 28, was taken into custody Friday night by law enforcement in Spokane, Washington State Patrol spokesman Todd Bartolac said. Garver crawled out a window of a locked, lower-security unit on Wednesday with another patient, Mark Alexander Adams, 58, who was caught the next day. 
 
 The escapes intensified federal scrutiny on Western State Hospital, Washington's largest psychiatric facility. Western State had already been under investigation for attacks on patients and staff and a failure to improve safety. 
 
 Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said two police officers tracked Garver with the help of a police dog and found him about 8:15 p.m. in trees above the home of his parents. Garver was hungry and dehydrated and receiving medical treatment before being transferred to jail, the sheriff said. 
 
 Garver was charged in 2013 with tying a 20-year-old woman to her bed with electrical cords, stabbing her 24 times in the chest and slashing her throat, prosecutors said. 
 
 He had been moved to a lower-security unit of the hospital after a judge said mental health treatment to prepare him to face criminal charges was not working and ordered him held as a danger to himself or others. Garver has a history of running from law enforcement, and Knzeovich had strong works for state officials about the fact that he was able to make another run for it. 
 
 "The state of Washington needs to get a clue," the sheriff said. "This cannot happen again." 
 
 On Friday, the hospital revealed another patient was missing. That patient, who authorities did not consider an immediate danger to the public, has not been found since failing to return from a group outing the same day the other two men escaped. The hospital did not identify the patient. The incidents did not appear related. 
 
 U.S. regulators already were investigating a recent violent attack on a hospital worker and a patient-on-patient sexual assault at Western State Hospital. A workplace inspection released this week found a series of missteps that posed safety risks, including unlocked rooms, unattended items that could be used as weapons and workers who abandoned their posts instead of watching patients. 
 
 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has repeatedly cited the facility over safety concerns and threatened to cut millions in federal funding. An agency spokesman says the hospital is under additional scrutiny over the escapes and recent assaults. 
 
 Garver, who bought a bus ticket from Seattle to Spokane after he escaped, had last been seen on Thursday in the Spokane area where his parents live after his father called authorities to report his son had stopped by briefly. Authorities used SWAT teams, dogs and helicopters to search for him. 
 
 Mark Alexander Adams, who escaped with Garver, had been charged with domestic assault in 2014. Like Garver, he was found too mentally ill to stand trial and a judge ordered him held at the hospital. 
 
 State officials would not explain why Garver, an ex-felon with a history of running from authorities, was kept in a lower-security area. Some high-security units require patient checks every 15 minutes, but Garver was not placed in one, staffers say. 
 
 "He was in a locked area with locked windows and hourly checks," said Kathy Spears, a spokeswoman for the Department of Social and Health Services, which oversees the state's mental health care. 
 
 The history of violence at the facility stretches back years. Hundreds of employees have suffered concussions, fractures and cuts in assaults by patients, resulting in $6 million in workers' compensation claims between 2013 and 2015. Patients also have attacked other patients, causing serious injuries. 
 
 Most recently, a patient with a history of violent behavior choked and punched a mental health technician on March 26, according to an internal report. A March 23 report said a male patient slipped out of his monitors and was found in a bathroom with another male patient, who said he was sexually assaulted. 
 
 The hospital faces new scrutiny after the two attacks and escapes, said Steven Chickering, associate regional administrator of a division of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 
 
 In addition, the hospital's safety and emergency management manager sent a memo to staff Thursday citing numerous violations observed during a recent review. 
 
 Some of the problems involved how the hospital is laid out, "but they also observed actions by staff that could pose a safety and/or security risk," Pamela Rieta's memo said. 
 
 Her team saw a patient wearing a long necklace, telephones with long cords, an unattended chair and other items that could be used as weapons left at the nurse's station, the memo said. 
 
 Cabinets and lockers in activity rooms and kitchen areas were unlocked and unattended. Patients returning from ground privileges were not scanned for contraband. Several kitchen doors were propped open without staffers present, allowing patients to enter, the memo said. 
 
 The team also saw staff leave their posts "to hang out and talk ... not observing the patients." 
 
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 Associated Press writer Lisa Baumann contributed from Seattle.
– Authorities may be closing in on an alleged murderer who escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital: Officials say Anthony Garver's mom called 911 around 3:30pm Thursday after her son visited his parents' home near Spokane, reports NBC News. Garver fled before SWAT officers, K-9 units, and helicopters converged on the scene. They're now "trying to contain him in the area and see if we can locate him from where he left the house," an official says. However, police fear Garver may be armed. He was previously known to possess military-style weapons and explosives and may have a stash hidden in the area, officials tell the Spokesman-Review and Seattle Times. Court documents note Garver has threatened mass shootings, studied bombs and al-Qaeda training documents, and "aspired to emulate" the Oklahoma City bomber. "He's out there among us, so not just my safety and family's safety, but everybody's safety" is at risk, says the mother of the woman Garver is accused of killing. "He's very dangerous." Garver is actually no stranger to life on the run. After a stint in prison for weapons charges, he failed to show up for a work-release program in 2009, sparking a month-long manhunt. He was found hiding in the woods near Mount Spokane. He later escaped from a halfway house. On Wednesday, Garver and his roommate—since recaptured—escaped from Western State Hospital through a locked window on which the bolts "were tampered with over several months," the hospital says in a statement. He then made it to Seattle, where authorities believe he bought a bus ticket to Spokane using the name John Anderson and money he was allowed to have at the hospital.