Officials say two deaths possibly linked to escaped Idaho inmate

James L Mauney was walking his dogs when he was shot and killed, and Gerald Don Henderson was found dead outside his cabin

Authorities said on Friday that they believe the deaths in Idaho of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin are connected to the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice after a Boise hospital ambush.

The escaped prisoner, Skylar Meade, and the accomplice, a recently released inmate named Nicholas Umphenour - both members of the Aryan Knights gang - were arrested in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Thursday afternoon. Their arrests came 36 hours after Umphenour shot and wounded two Idaho corrections officers while they were preparing to return Meade to prison from a hospital, police said.