Police Continue Search for Prisoner Who Escaped NJ Hospital

The search continues for a prisoner who escaped from a guarded hospital room in New Jersey.

Elijah Shabazz had been admitted to University Hospital in Newark under police guard after complaining of chest pains.

Shabazz was being held on robbery, burglary and resisting arrest charges.

Police and doctors discovered the 46-year-old wasn't in his room shortly after 11 a.m. Monday.

The hospital was put in lockdown for more than two hours and only patients entering the building for treatment were allowed in.

The lockdown was lifted after authorities searched the hospital and nearby area for Shabazz for about two and a half hours and found no sign of him.

No hospital staff or patients were injured in the escape, the hospital said.

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