A convicted killer who escaped an Arkansas prison turned himself in to authorities Thursday after about three months on the run.
Arkansas Department of Correction spokeswoman Shea Wilson says inmate Timothy Buffington went to a home in western Arkansas on Thursday and asked the resident to call Booneville police so he could surrender.
Authorities had been searching an area in Logan and Sebastian counties after someone spotted Buffington and called law enforcement.
Buffington had been missing since June 21, when he escaped the Pine Bluff Unit while doing janitorial work at a house on prison grounds. Buffington was serving a 20-year prison sentence for first-degree murder for the shooting death of his ex-wife.