Manhunt now in 2nd day for San Quentin escapee, police release surveillance video of carjacking

California authorities are now entering a second day of searching for an inmate who walked away from San Quentin State Prison and is believed to have carjacked a woman at a San Rafael parking lot.


San Rafael police say that Mendoza is also likely the suspect who carjacked a woman in a Home Depot parking lot less than a mile from the prison after 9 p.m., fleeing in a silver Toyota RAV4 with California license plate number 6STZ502. San Rafael police released surveillance video of the carjacking, hoping it would produce more leads. 

VIDEO: Carjacking of woman from Home Depot




San Quentin is California's oldest prison, opening in 1852. It houses more than 4,100 inmates, including those on death row.

Walk-aways by inmates outside of secure areas are not unusual, and most are quickly apprehended without incident. Far more uncommon are escapes from walled or fenced prisons, like Michael Garrett's escape in January from the California Institution for Men in Chino, east of Los Angeles.



The Associated Press contributed to this report.