Three Idaho officers injured during medical transport ambush, search for suspects ongoing

Three Idaho police officers were injured during the breakout of a prison inmate from a Boise hospital, authorities have confirmed.

The individual attempting to break out the prisoner shot two corrections officers while the third was shot by another officer who mistook him for the suspect, according to The Associated Press. 

Police are currently searching for the suspect and the escaped inmate, Skylar Meade, who received a 20-year prison sentence in 2017. Both Meade and the suspect reportedly fled in a sedan. 

The incident took place at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday after Meade was taken by corrections officers to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center for treatment. The Idaho Department of Corrections was preparing to return him to prison when the breakout occurred.

One officer is in critical condition while the other two have non-life threatening injuries.

"This brazen, violent, and apparently coordinated attack on Idaho Department of Corrections personnel, to facilitate an escape of a dangerous inmate, was carried out right in front of the Emergency Department, where people come for medical help, often in the direst circumstances," Boise Police Chief Ron Winegar said, according to WWNYTV. 

The hospital was on a temporary lockdown shortly after the incident and police are still searching for the suspects.