A man has been charged with the shooting murder of escaped prisoner Nicholas Scott outside a home north of Hobart on Tuesday.
The 20-year-old remains in custody and will appear before the Hobart Magistrates Court at a later time.
Scott, 26, absconded from prison custody while being treated at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) on Monday night, and police later discovered his body outside a house in Granton after responding to a report of a gunshot.
Inside the house, they found a man with non-life-threatening injuries who was taken to the RHH for treatment.
Police said he was "helping with their inquiries".
On Tuesday, police said they were seeking a member of the public who they believe lent Scott their phone "to make a call" at about 11:40pm on Monday outside a bar in the popular nightclub precinct in Salamanca Lane, about a kilometre from the hospital.
In a post on social media, police said the person who lent Scott their phone was "not in any trouble but you may have important information we need".
Scott's escape is the third such incident in as many years involving a prisoner receiving medical attention while in the custody of prison guards.
