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 Police were searching a wooded area near Spokane, Washington, after an accused killer who escaped from a state psychiatric hospital showed up at his mother's home, authorities said. 
 
 Anthony Garver's mother called 911 after he showed up at her home Thursday afternoon, U.S. Marshals told NBC station KHQ. Law enforcement officers that included heavily-armed SWAT officers, K-9 units and helicopters searched the wooded area near the home. 
 
 "There's a lot of people on the ground looking, just trying to contain him in the area and see if we can locate him from where he left the house," Deputy U.S. Marshal Bob Doty said. 
 
 UPDATE: Anthony Garver is still on the loose. Deputies will be actively searching through the night. @KHQLocalNews pic.twitter.com/nuTfqebrIA — Patrick Erickson KHQ (@patrickerickson) April 8, 2016 
 
 Garver was one of two patients that escaped from the Western State Hospital in Lakewood, southwest of Tacoma, Wednesday night. The other escapee, Mark Alexander Adams, was taken into custody near Des Moines, Washington, earlier Thursday, officials said. 
 
 Garver was committed to the psychiatric facility two years ago after he was deemed not competent to stand trial after being accused of fatally stabbing a woman 24 times. 
 
 This undated photo provided by the Lakewood Police Department shows Anthony Garver. Mark Alexander Adams and Garver, described as dangerous, have escaped from Western State Hospital, a psychiatric facility, in Pierce County, south of Tacoma, Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Lakewood Police Department via AP 
 
 Investigators believe Garver bought a bus ticket in Seattle to Spokane using cash and under the false name "John Anderson," Lakewood police Lt. Chris Lawler said. 
 
 Garver, 28, is 5 feet 8 inches tall, a stocky 250 pounds, and was last seen wearing a brown, faded sweatshirt and orange flip-flops, police said. Authorities are warning anyone spotting him to call 911 immediately. 
 
 Garver and Adams shared a room at the hospital and escaped through a locked window, the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services said. 
 
 "Initial thoughts are that the bolts on the window were tampered with over several months," the department said in a statement. 
 
 They were last seen during dinner at 6 p.m. Wednesday and were discovered missing at a 6:45 p.m. check, the department said. 
 
 Anthony Garver is seen purchasing a Greyhound bus ticket out of Seattle to Spokane on April 6, 2016. Lakewood Police Department 
 
 "The hospital is undergoing a complete safety review and plan to bring in outside experts to go through our facility," Carla Reyes, assistant director of the DSHS Behavioral Health Administration, said in a statement. 
 
 The Department of Social and Health Services said it was not aware of anyone escaping from the facility through a locked window before. A patient escaped in 2011 through an unlocked gym door and in 2009 by walking out of a sally port, the agency said. Both were later found. ||||| A violent mental patient who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Western Washington boarded a Greyhound bus for Spokane, sparking a massive manhunt Thursday in the foothills of Mount Spokane 
 
 Sheriff’s deputies and U.S. marshals called off the search for Anthony Garver at nightfall, but said they would keep extra patrols in the area and resume the search Friday. 
 
 Deputies got a tip around 3:30 p.m. that Garver was at his parents’ house in the area of MacMahan Road and Offmy Lane. 
 
 “We talked to them (the parents) and they said, yes, he was here,” Supervisory U.S. Marshal Bob Doty said. “He wasn’t there long.” 
 
 Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich called the search “a pretty intense situation,” involving both federal and local law enforcement, police dogs, SWAT teams and helicopters. 
 
 Garver was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans. He is believed to be on foot and officials do not know if he is armed, Doty said, adding, “It’s possible he’s still in the area.” 
 
 Law enforcement has received information in the past that Garver may have a cache of weapons hidden in the East Valley area that haven’t been located, the sheriff said. 
 
 Authorities are warning that he’s dangerous. Capt. Dave Ellis of the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office advised people in northeast Spokane County to call 911 if they see anything suspicious and not to confront Garver. 
 
 “We are looking for him with everything we’ve got,” Knezovich said, adding that he’s frustrated the state of Washington continues to treat Garver as a “low-risk individual.” 
 
 History of escaping custody 
 
 Garver has a history of escaping custody. 
 
 In 2009, he was the subject of a monthlong manhunt that ended when federal agents found him hiding in the woods near Mount Spokane. He escaped from a halfway house, and in 2013 failed to check in with his probation officer after being released from federal prison. Later that year, he was accused of killing a 20-year-old woman in Snohomish County who was found bound with electrical cords and stabbed to death. Garver was found incompetent to stand trial three times while undergoing treatment for schizophrenia. 
 
 Garver, 28, and 58-year-old Mark Alexander Adams escaped from Western State Hospital in Pierce County, south of Tacoma, sometime Wednesday evening. Adams was recaptured Thursday morning in Des Moines, Washington, Lakewood police said. 
 
 Lakewood police said Thursday afternoon that Garver purchased a Greyhound bus ticket bound for Spokane on Wednesday evening in Seattle. 
 
 “At the facility he was at, he was allowed to have cash,” Doty said. 
 
 Escape may have been months in the making 
 
 Both Garver and Adams were housed in Western State Hospital’s locked civil ward, a news release from DSHS said. They were both seen around 6 p.m. Wednesday at dinner, then discovered missing during an hourly patient check at 6:45 p.m. 
 
 It appears the men escaped through a locked window in their ward. The news release said it doesn’t appear the window or lock was defective, but that the bolts on the window may have been tampered with over several months. 
 
 Court records detail Garver’s long history of both threatening behavior and mental illness, including paranoia and hallucinations. 
 
 Garver, also known as Anthony Burke, has been called a “domestic terrorist” by Knezovich as recently as 2015. 
 
 In 2006, he allegedly boasted in jail that he had ties to al-Qaida and planned to detonate a bomb at Pig Out in the Park in Riverfront Park as well as blow up a Department of Social and Health Services building. At the time, his mother told KHQ her son often got frustrated and said things he didn’t mean. 
 
 As a teenager, Garver was twice arrested on investigation of assault and malicious mischief, both after getting into fights with his mother and stepfather. Both times, the cases were dismissed. 
 
 In 2006, he pleaded guilty to domestic violence harassment in Spokane County Superior Court after his mother told police he threatened to kill her, other family members and himself. 
 
 Deputies who responded found 100 rounds of Russian ammunition at his family’s Veradale home. Garver was prohibited from having the bullets, because he had been committed to a mental hospital as a teen and served three years in federal prison. Court records from that case show Garver was ordered to receive a mental health evaluation. 
 
 He later spent a year in prison when he escaped from a halfway house and led Montana law enforcement on a dangerous chase. 
 
 In 2009, Garver pleaded guilty to taking his mother’s car without permission and served two months in jail. Court records do not indicate he was evaluated for mental health problems at any point during proceedings. 
 
 In a parallel world 
 
 Following his arrest in the killing of Phillipa S. Evans-Lopez in 2013, Garver was evaluated at Western State Hospital. In June 2015, a psychologist reported Garver’s symptoms included hallucinations and delusions that were not responding to anti-psychotic medication. 
 
 According to the report, Garver repeatedly said he was on trial for forgery and would not acknowledge people telling him he was charged with murder. Instead, he made claims about being in a parallel world and saying the charge was going to go away when he moved to a new dimension. 
 
 A judge determined Garver was not competent to stand trial for a final time shortly after that report and dismissed the murder charge against him, ordering him to be civilly committed to the hospital for ongoing treatment, saying he was a danger to himself or others. 
 
 Western State Hospital has been under scrutiny over assaults on staff and worker shortages and nearly lost federal funding last fall because of safety issues. 
 
 After Wednesday’s escapes, DSHS said the agency plans to bring in outside experts to go through the hospital and do a complete safety review, the release said. ||||| Federal and local authorities are searching for one of two men who escaped from Western State Hospital. He is considered a potential threat to the public. The other man was taken into police custody Thursday. 
 
 A man described as dangerous who escaped from the state psychiatric hospital in Lakewood was seen in the Spokane Valley area Thursday evening, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office. 
 
 Anthony Garver, 28, visited his parents’ house near Forker Road in East Valley, according to The Spokesman-Review. 
 
 After a massive search of the wooded area, Spokane County sheriff deputies and U.S. Marshals ended the operation before 8:30 p.m. and said they would resume Friday, the newspaper reports. Patrols would remain in the area. 
 
 Law enforcement has received information in the past that Garver may have a cache of undiscovered weapons hidden in the East Valley area, Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told The Spokesman-Review. 
 
 Hours before the spotting, police said they believe Garver — one of two men who escaped from Western State Hospital on Wednesday evening — bought a Greyhound bus ticket Wednesday night from Seattle to his hometown of Spokane. 
 
 The man has a history of making violent threats, and “has aspired to emulate” the Oklahoma City bomber, according to court records. 
 
 He has been described by police in the past as a survivalist who had threatened mass shootings and had possessed military-style weapons and explosives. 
 
 The last time he evaded authorities, in 2009, the search lasted a month before he was found in the woods. 
 
 Garver had been involuntarily committed at Western State since 2014, when he was deemed incompetent to stand trial on a murder charge in connection with the stabbing death of Phillipa S. Evans-Lopez in Lake Stevens in 2013. He is considered a threat to the public, and authorities urge anyone who sees him to keep a safe distance and call 911. 
 
 He and another man, Mark Alexander Adams, apparently climbed out a first-story window which had bolts that had been loosened. Adams was caught and taken into police custody without incident Thursday in Des Moines. 
 
 Lakewood police Lt. Chris Lawler said authorities notified “every mode of transportation,” local police departments and law-enforcement agencies, motels and hospitals about Garver’s escape. 
 
 A Pierce County bus driver told police he picked up Garver about 6 p.m. Wednesday near the hospital, traveling east. The man believed to be Garver might have gotten off at the Towne Center Transit Center in Lakewood, according to police. 
 
 Kris Evans, mother of the slain Evans-Lopez, told KOMO TV she’s scared. 
 
 She said she wasn’t pleased Garver ended up at Western State Hospital rather than prison, but was “content” he was locked up, at least. 
 
 “He’s out there among us, so not just my safety and family’s safety, but everybody’s safety” is at risk, she said. “He’s very dangerous.” 
 
 Garver, who may also go by Anthony Burke or Deryk Garver, is white and has long, curly brown hair and a beard or mustache. He is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 250 pounds, and was last seen wearing a brown, faded sweatshirt and orange flip-flops. 
 
 Escapee in custody 
 
 Adams, the other man who escaped, was captured about 10 a.m. Thursday in the 2200 block of Seventh Avenue South in Des Moines after a tip from someone who had seen his face in news coverage, police said. 
 
 “He had a calm demeanor and was taken into custody without incident,” said Bob Bohl, a Des Moines Police Department commander. “It was easy.” 
 
 Lakewood police said Adams traveled Wednesday night from Lakewood to the Federal Way Transit Center, where he asked how to get to the airport. Bohl said police did not know why Adams came to Des Moines. 
 
 He was captured near a church and elementary school. 
 
 Adams had been at Western State since June 2015. 
 
 How escape happened 
 
 The two men climbed out the window of a room in the facility’s locked civil ward and left together on foot, according to news releases from the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), which runs the hospital, and from Lakewood police. 
 
 The room was designed to house four patients, according to Kathy Spears, a DSHS spokeswoman, and other patients were in the room at the time of the escape. 
 
 The window, about 6 feet tall and 2½ feet wide, opens with a key, Spears wrote in an email. It wasn’t removed from its frame. Rather, loosened bolts allowed the window to pivot, with one side swinging out and the other swinging in, according to Spears. 
 
 The drop to the ground would be about 10 to 12 feet, Spears said. 
 
 The men had been last seen in the dining hall about 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to the DSHS news release. Hospital staff discovered that the patients were missing about 6:45 p.m. during an hourly patient-status check, but they didn’t contact Lakewood police until 7:16 p.m., Spears said. 
 
 DSHS isn’t aware of any previous incidents in which a patient escaped through a key-locked window, according to the agency’s news release. 
 
 The hospital is undertaking a safety review and will have outside experts check the facility, said Carla Reyes, assistant director of DSHS behavioral health administration, in the statement. 
 
 “We can never have too many fresh eyes reviewing a situation as serious as this,” Reyes said in prepared remarks. “As always, safety — for the public, staff and other patients — remains a priority.” 
 
 Both of the men who escaped were committed under a law that allows a judge to dismiss criminal charges and commit patients to a civil ward if “restoration services” haven’t worked and they are a danger to themselves or others. 
 
 Garver’s criminal history 
 
 The U.S. Marshals Service has a warrant out for Garver, according to police. 
 
 In a forensic mental-health-status report from June 2015, a state psychologist wrote that Garver met diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. He had limited memory, hallucinations and paranoid delusions. 
 
 The psychologist wrote Garver could not understand the charges or court procedures he faced and could not consult with his attorney with a “reasonable degree of rational understanding,” because of his symptoms. 
 
 In court records, police described Garver as a survivalist and loner who had threatened mass shootings, was anti-government, had possessed military-style weapons and explosives in the past, and had threatened to shoot anyone who confronted him. 
 
 “Anthony has wanted to create explosive devices in the past using fertilizer and has aspired to emulate Timothy McVeigh,” an officer wrote in probable-cause statements, referring to the 1995 Oklahoma City bomber. “Anthony has also studied and downloaded bomb making information from Anarchist Cookbook’s (sic) and has studied Al-Queda (sic) training manuals.” 
 
 Garver pleaded guilty to weapons charges in 2007 and was sentenced to prison. 
 
 After Garver failed to report to a work-release program in 2009, officials spent a month searching for him, finding him in the woods near Mount Spokane wearing camouflage clothing. 
 
 In 2010, Garver led the Montana Highway Patrol on a chase, at one point driving the wrong way on Interstate 90 and trying to hit cars head-on. 
 
 Western State’s troubles 
 
 Western State Hospital has been under scrutiny recently. Hundreds of employees at the facility have been assaulted by patients, which has led to millions in medical costs and thousands of missed days of work. 
 
 Federal regulators have issued the hospital a number of warnings and threatened to pull federal funding. 
 
 In 2011, a 26-year-old man who called himself “the son of Satan” and believed he could kill at random walked away from the facility. He was captured a day later. 
 
 In 2009, a 33-year-old patient left the hospital and vanished for two hours before Western State employees spotted him. He was apprehended by Lakewood police without incident.
– Authorities may be closing in on an alleged murderer who escaped from a Washington state psychiatric hospital: Officials say Anthony Garver's mom called 911 around 3:30pm Thursday after her son visited his parents' home near Spokane, reports NBC News. Garver fled before SWAT officers, K-9 units, and helicopters converged on the scene. They're now "trying to contain him in the area and see if we can locate him from where he left the house," an official says. However, police fear Garver may be armed. He was previously known to possess military-style weapons and explosives and may have a stash hidden in the area, officials tell the Spokesman-Review and Seattle Times. Court documents note Garver has threatened mass shootings, studied bombs and al-Qaeda training documents, and "aspired to emulate" the Oklahoma City bomber. "He's out there among us, so not just my safety and family's safety, but everybody's safety" is at risk, says the mother of the woman Garver is accused of killing. "He's very dangerous." Garver is actually no stranger to life on the run. After a stint in prison for weapons charges, he failed to show up for a work-release program in 2009, sparking a month-long manhunt. He was found hiding in the woods near Mount Spokane. He later escaped from a halfway house. On Wednesday, Garver and his roommate—since recaptured—escaped from Western State Hospital through a locked window on which the bolts "were tampered with over several months," the hospital says in a statement. He then made it to Seattle, where authorities believe he bought a bus ticket to Spokane using the name John Anderson and money he was allowed to have at the hospital.