Escaped inmate nabbed after trading gun for NASCAR tickets

Sometimes, life is like a country song. Or a William Faulkner novel, whichever.There's so much southern gothic in this story that we're not even sure to begin, but let's start here: Michael Lynn Sherer was nabbed in Hampton, Georgia near Atlanta Motor Speedway after trading a gun for tickets to Sunday's Emory Healthcare 500 NASCAR race.Oh, but it doesn't end there. Turns out Sherer is an escaped fugitive, on the run from a murder charge. And when he was nabbed by Hampton police, he used the murder victim's name as his own alias. That, friends, is cold-blooded. The story, in more detail: Sherer had apparently escaped from the Winston County (Ala.) jail, where he'd been held on charges of killing Thomas Lynn Smith of Jasper, Ala. in Smith's home following a break-in. Sherer apparently made it from Winston County to Hampton, a distance of more than 250 miles, in a van he'd allegedly stolen prior to the murder. At the Atlanta Motor Speedway, he drew ...