ALTUS - A man convicted in a 1998 shooting in Altus was arrested Sunday and must appear in District Court on April 5 for possible further action in his case.

Gaylyn Tawan Martin, 28, of 2410 NW 41st in Lawton, was picked up on an arrest warrant and charged with failure to appear and pay fines and court costs in the shooting of a man in the Union Circle area of Altus on April 7, 1998. The following month, on May 2, 1998, he escaped from the exercise yard of the Jackson County Jail.

Martin was sentenced in October 1998 to 10 years in the state Department of Corrections on a charge of shooting with intent to kill, to run concurrently with a five-year sentence for escape from a county jail.

According to affidavits filed in District Court, numerous shots were fired that April 7 night in the Union Circle parking lot, and a witness identified Martin as the man who fired a 9mm semiautomatic pistol five times toward Starling Jackson, who was at that time a juvenile also known as "Shawndawg," of Frederick. Jackson was hit once in the right thigh, and the bullet exited his left buttock.

On the morning of May 2, 1998, while in the exercise yard of the jail along with five other inmates, Martin scaled the south wall of the enclosure.