Seven of the 10 inmates who escaped last week from a New Orleans jail  remain at-large Monday. 

The inmates, including the three already captured, escaped from the Orleans Justice Center just after midnight Friday but were not discovered missing until a routine headcount at 8:30 a.m. 

Authorities say the inmates removed a toilet and breached a wall behind it, then escaped from the jail through a loading dock door, before scaling fences and crossing the I-10 highway.

The seven remaining fugitives are Derrick Groves, convicted of a 2018 Mardi Gras mass shooting; Antoine Massey, who has a history of escaping and was being held on domestic abuse and vehicle theft and is wanted in St. Tammany Parish for kidnapping and rape; Gary Price, charged with attempted first-degree murder and domestic abuse; Lenton VanBuren, Jermaine Donald, and Corey Boyd, who are all facing second-degree murder charges; and Leo Tate, a felon convicted in federal court for firearm possession.

Louisiana GOP Gov. Jeff Landry said on Sunday that Groves pleaded "guilty to manslaughter in October of last year and was awaiting sentencing.

“If he would have been sentenced by our court system, he most likely wouldn’t have had the opportunity to escape.”

“Nine of these escapees were sitting in jail waiting to go to trial,” he also said. “Had they gone to trial, had they been convicted, had they been sentenced, they would most likely not be in the Orleans Parish Jail but in our custody in one of the state penitentiaries.”

The governor increased the reward for tips to $20,000 per inmate.

“We are confident at this time that we have actual intelligence on all seven of those fugitives. We hope that in the coming days, if not the coming hours, that we have them all apprehended,” State Police Superintendent Col. Robert Hodges said.

Landry ordered the Louisiana attorney general to investigate how the escape occurred and who was responsible. The Louisiana Department of Corrections is conducting an audit of the jail’s compliance with basic correctional standards.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson has acknowledged the jail's infrastructure problems, including broken locks and malfunctioning security cameras. She also suspects that the inmates had inside assistance because the plumbing access point they escaped through could not have been manipulated without help. Three employees have been suspended and there is an ongoing internal investigation.