OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Authorities hunted Saturday for the last of three inmates who escaped from a Louisiana jail after removing concrete blocks from a deteriorating wall. “We would prefer that he surrender himself peaceably,” St. Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz said in a statement, “but we will not rest until he is captured.” Detectives and SWAT officers were following leads Saturday in pursuit of 24-year-old Keith Eli, who remained at large three days after he and two other inmates escaped the parish jail in southwestern Louisiana. Eli had been jailed on a charge of second-degree murder. One of the escapees, 24-year-old Johnathan Jevon Joseph, was captured Friday following a brief chase. LeBlanc said investigators following a tip found Joseph hiding out at a home. Joseph ran to a nearby storage shed, where he surrendered after being cornered. The third escapee, 26-year-old Joseph Allen Harrington, killed himself with a hunting rifle Thursday after police found him at a home and used a loudspeaker to urge him to come out. Before his escape, Harrington had faced several felony charges, including home invasion. This jailbreak is not the first of its kind in Louisiana this year. In May, 10 inmates broke out of a New Orleans jail after crawling through a hole behind a toilet, showcasing ongoing issues regarding prison security in the state. As sheriff, Guidroz oversees the St. Landry Parish jail in Opelousas, about 130 miles northwest of New Orleans. He stated that the inmates escaped after discovering a degrading part of an upper wall area and over time managed to remove the mortar holding the wall’s concrete blocks together, allowing them to slip through the wall. The inmates then used sheets to scale the jail’s outer wall, drop onto a first-floor roof, and lower themselves to the ground. An internal investigation will follow the security breach.