Video taking off 51x its usual first day

Neighbors' safety concerns feature in Tennessee prison manhunt update

WKRN News 2's report follows the search across state lines, with a resident considering the danger of an unexpected encounter.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 51,913 views a day, 51 times a normal first day on this channel (1,026).

Manhunt for escaped convicted killer continues

What happens if an escaped prisoner stops at an ordinary neighborhood store? That possibility concerns a local resident in WKRN News 2's update on the search for convicted killer Jacob Allen Morley.

Speaking on camera, the resident considers what might have happened had Morley encountered people inside a store. Reporter Elisheva Wimberly puts those concerns alongside the search: Morley escaped Tennessee's Northwest Correctional Complex on Sunday night by breaching a perimeter fence while wearing his prison uniform, she reports.

The Short drew about 52,000 views in its first day, roughly fifty times the station's usual first-day audience for that format. Following earlier coverage of the escape and the recovery of a pickup in Illinois, this update includes the perspective of someone living near the route described in the report.

Wimberly says the truck was abandoned in Marion, Illinois, and that Morley remained at large as the search approached its fourth day. The segment closes with an instruction for anyone who sees him: call 911.

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