WARREN, Pa. — A homicide suspect accused of escaping from the Warren County Prison late Thursday night got away using a technique usually seen in the movies.

Police said he made a rope by tying sheets together and used the rope to slide off the roof of the prison, located next to the county courthouse in downtown Warren in Warren County, east of Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania.

Details of the escape of the inmate, Michael C. Burham, are provided in the criminal complaint that Warren police filed against him on Friday morning. The police charged him with escape, and he remains at large as of Saturday morning.

“The public is asked to remain vigilant and report anything suspicious. Burham is considered dangerous and should not be approached,” City of Warren Police wrote in a Saturday Facebook post.

Burham, 34, is wanted in connection with the killing of a woman in Jamestown, New York, north of Warren, on May 11. He is accused of fleeing the area after her death, leading to a multi-agency manhunt that ended with his arrest in South Carolina on May 24.

Though he has not been charged in the homicide, Burham has been charged with kidnapping an elderly Warren County couple and stealing their SUV at gunpoint on May 20 to drive to South Carolina. Burham, last known to live in Russell, Pennsylvania, near Warren, had been held at the Warren County Prison on a $1 million bond in the kidnapping case since June 19.

Warren and Jamestown police notified the public about Burham’s escape on Facebook posts shortly after midnight on Friday. Burham “was last seen at approximately 1120pm wearing a blue denim jacket,” according to the posts, referring to Burham’s prison uniform. “All citizens are urged to lock their doors and stay vigilant.”