The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an internal investigation into the Monday night escape by Holly Colino — the suspect in last week’s fatal shooting of Megan Dix in Brockport.
Colino slipped her handcuffs Monday evening and ran away from a sheriff’s substation. Sheriff Patrick O’Flynn, who characterized her escape as “brief” on Tuesday, now acknowledges she was on the loose for two hours before being recaptured. Colino was found about 100 yards away after a “short chase” with the help of a police helicopter. She had tried and failed to get into the locked back doors of a nearby Wendy’s restaurant.
Colino had been arrested earlier after an armed encounter with an employee at the Sticky Lips restaurant on Jefferson Road.
Brockport Police said this week they had five non-violent encounters with murder suspect Holly Colino during the years she lived in Brockport, from 2011 to 2014.
SUNY Brockport police had dealings with Colino while she was a student at SUNY Brockport, when she interrupted anti-death penalty advocate Sister Helen Prejean during a lecture. Colino wasn’t arrested, but was led out of the auditorium as she continued to yell about Prejean and “the truth.”
Graffiti has also been found painted around East Rochester, including the door of the First Baptist Church police are now attributing to Colino. She grew up across the street from the church.