UPDATE: Escaped Knox County prisoner captured after he hid out in cousin's home

A man who escaped from custody and eluded police for almost 48-hours is back in jail.

Nineteen-year-old Demarcus Johnson somehow slipped out of handcuffs and away from deputies Monday night. Security video shows him walking through the city county building.

He rode an elevator, turned his jail jumpsuit inside out, walked right past a security check point and out the door. Knoxville Police got an anonymous tip Wednesday afternoon. Someone had seen Demarcus Johnson at an apartment in South Knoxville. The tipster saw him at an apartment where his cousin lives. But the cousin, Marie Rucker, had not been home since Thursday.

"I called my house phone to check my messages and he answered my phone," said Rucker. "I didn't say nothing. I hung up. And called the police."

That call from Marie Rucker wasn't the first one to KPD. Someone else had already tipped them off about Johnson's whereabouts at Southmont Apartments on Moody Avenue.

"He called me back," said Rucker. "He said you need to come home because the police are outside your apartment. He called me back and told me that."

Rucker was alarmed that Johnson was in her apartment. She said she is the only one with a key.

"I can recognize my cousin's voice. And I know somebody wasn't supposed to be at my house."

She said Johnson broke in through a window. He could have been inside the apartment for a day, or even two. He knew she wasn't home.

"Oh yeah, he knew," Rucker said. "Because he knew I wasn't at home. He knew I was in jail."

She is out on bond. Her cousin is back in jail.

Police knocked on the apartment door Wednesday afternoon where the tipster told them to look. Johnson answered. Police arrested him and drove him back to the same jail sally port where he had somehow slipped away from deputies Monday night.

Marie Rucker does not approve of her cousin seeking shelter at her home.

"I was a little hurt. Why would you do that? You know, I have a child," she said. "There could have been gunshots fired or anything. He's a fugitive now, remember."

She forgives him.

"I still love him. That's my baby. But he shouldn't have done what he did."

Johnson was originally arrested for aggravated assault and weapons charges. It's not clear what additional charges he'll face related to the escape and apartment break-in.