The 19-year-old gunman accused of shooting and seriously wounding singer Lady Gaga‘s dog walker and stealing her two French bulldogs is being sought after being mistakenly released from prison because of a “clerical error,” authorities said on Friday. 

James Howard Jackson is one of five people arrested in connection with the February 24, 2021, attack in Hollywood. He was facing an attempted murder charge when he was mistakenly released from Los Angeles County’s jail on Wednesday.

“Defendant Jackson attended court proceedings at the Clara Shortridge Criminal Justice Center on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, and was released from custody on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, due to a clerical error,” the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement to CNN. 

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The sheriff’s Major Crimes Bureau is Major Crimes Bureau is working on finding him.

Prosecutors say Jackson and two other alleged gang members had driven around Hollywood looking for expensive French bulldogs to steal. They then spotted, tailed and robbed Ryan Fischer as he walked Lady Gaga’s dogs near Sunset Boulevard.

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During a struggle, Fischer was hit, choked and then shot in an attack, which was captured by the doorbell camera of a nearby home.

Fischer lost part of a lung.

“While I’m deeply concerned at the events that led to his release, I’m confident law enforcement will rectify the error. I ask for Mr. Jackson to turn himself over to the authorities, so resolution to the crime committed against me runs its course, whatever the courts determine that outcome to be,”  Fischer said in a statement obtained by KABC-TV.

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The dogs were returned two days later by a woman who claimed she had found them tied to a pole.

Jackson already had been charged in the attack and had pleaded not guilty when the county district attorney’s office filed a superceding indictment Tuesday charging him with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit a robbery and assault with a semiautomatic firearm.