(Newser) – A Danish man convicted of killing a journalist aboard his homemade submarine in a case that shocked Scandinavia managed to escape from prison on Tuesday—though he was apprehended soon after. Peter Madsen, serving life in prison for the 2017 murder of Kim Wall, escaped from Herstedvester Prison near Copenhagen but was seized within a few hundred yards of the place, reports Sky News. Photos from the scene in the Albertslung suburb showed Madsen sitting on the ground surrounded by police officers in tactical gear, per the New York Times. Police had pulled him from a white van, a witness told the Ekstra Bladet tabloid.