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A man accused of violent crimes is on the loose. He is the second person to escape from The MED in one day. Eyewitness News spoke with the woman he's accused of robbing and kidnapping. She didn't want to speak on camera, or want us use her name.

She got a call Thursday morning saying the man accused of holding her and her husband at gunpoint had escaped, and she's worried about where he'll try to go.

It's been two years since police say Mario Jackson robbed an East Memphis couple at gunpoint. He was due in court next week.

“He was just being held at the jail in preparations for his trials,” said Shelby County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Steve Shular.

During a check up at The MED Wednesday, Jackson escaped.

“How is it that a Shelby County Jail inmate goes into the restroom properly secured and, on his way out, is unsecured?” Shular said is one of the questions they’re trying to answer.

While investigators try to figure out what happened. The accused robber's victims are reliving a nightmare. We spoke with a woman who says she and her husband were asleep when a man came into their bedroom and demanded money. After holding them for a while and threatening to kill them, he left with jewelry, car keys, a fur coat and more.

Fingerprints led police to a Whitehaven home and to Mario Jackson.

When cops arrested Jackson, they found a diamond ring, keys to a jaguar and 2 boxes of ammo at the house.

Jackson's former neighbors say they knew he was trouble. The escape scares them too.

“Yeah, it kinda does,” said Deon Richardson, who lives next door. “Because it kinda puts my family in jeopardy, and I don't want anything to happen to them.”

The victim says she's still reeling from what happened, she's had to go to therapy to deal with what happened that night. She thinks that one of the biggest crimes is the fact that Jackson could've gotten out of jail in a year or so if this had gone to trial as scheduled. She wants to see tougher laws on the books for repeat offenders.

Just hours before Jackson escaped from The MED, another prisoner, Keshun Douglas, escaped on the way to The MED. He's also still on the loose. If you know where either man is, call police.

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