ST. LOUIS — St. Louis police said three teenagers escaped from a state-run secure youth center early Sunday morning.
According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, three 17-year-old boys escaped from the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center at around 1:10 Sunday morning.
An employee said the teens lured him into a second-floor restroom, where they held him down, assaulted him and took his set of facility keys.
A police report on the incident indicated the teens locked the worker in the bathroom. They broke a window and ran out of the building.
The teens have not been located as of Monday morning.
No other information has been released.
Hogan Street Regional Youth Center is a juvenile rehabilitation center in the St. Louis Place Neighborhood in north St. Louis.
According to its online audit finding, the state-run facility near Hogan and North Market "is dedicated to the care, treatment and supervision of court-committed, male youth."
The at-risk teens generally range from 13 to 17 years old.
This is the latest in a string of incidents at the city’s juvenile detention centers.
At least 11 juveniles have escaped the Hogan facility in two incidents since last July. And since last September, a total of about a dozen teens have gotten out of the Enright facility over four escape incidents.
This story will be updated when more information becomes available.
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