An inmate from the Tipton Correctional Facility who escaped while working at the Missouri State Fair on Sunday, August 18, has been apprehended.
According to a release from the Pettis County Sheriff’s Department, at approximately 11 p.m. on Monday, August 19, deputies- with assistance from troopers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol, responded to the 3300 block of Route B, just outside of Sedalia, for a 9-1-1 report of a male subject with unknown injuries.
The male subject later was identified as 34-year-old Shannon Dewayne Watts.
Upon arrival, deputies and troopers found Watts with two other subjects. The other subjects were detained and later released. Watts appeared to have an unknown injury and was transported to University Hospital in Columbia for medical attention.
The manner of the injury to Watts is unknown, and the incident is under investigation by the Pettis County Sheriff’s Department.
Watts currently is in custody with the Missouri Department of Corrections at University Hospital in Columbia.

Photo from post on State Fair Community College in Sedalia’s website.