UPDATE: Randy Darnell Highfield, 30, of Rome, was continuing to be treated for hypothermia late Friday at Floyd Medical Center, police and hospital officials said.

According to hospital officials:

Highfield was in satisfactory condition.

Highfield was sent to the hospital after he fled from officers and jumped into the Etowah River early Thursday morning. Police said they originally stopped him for questioning after a reported shoplifting incident at Kmart.

Rome police backed up by other local agencies pulled a shoplifting suspect out of the Etowah River after he jumped in the chilly water Thursday morning trying to elude capture.

Randy Darnell Highfield, 30, of Rome, was being treated for hypothermia late Thursday at Floyd Medical Center, police and hospital officials said.

Officers said he was involved in shoplifting at Kmart on Hicks Drive.

A second suspect, identified as Clifford Lance Dunagan, 39, of 355 Mill Road in Cave Spring, was charged with misdemeanor shoplifting in the incident, according to police and jail records. Dunagan was released from jail Thursday on a bond of $1,350, jail records stated.

According to Lt. Paul Greene of the Rome Police Department, Dunagan was stopped by loss prevention at the store and Highfield walked away from the scene up Turner McCall Boulevard.

Highfield was then stopped by police at Advanced Auto Parts, where Greene said he gave a false name and two different dates of birth to Officer Alison Tiller. Then Highfield ran and jumped into the river behind the auto parts store.

Greene said that Highfield refused to follow police commands along the riverbank on Glenn Milner Boulevard and briefly grabbed hold of a rope draped over by Rome firefighters on the Second Avenue bridge. He was finally pulled out of the river on the bank behind River Street.

Highfield was listed in satisfactory condition at FMC, where he was expected to spend the night, hospital officials said.

Police reported that Dunagan had allegedly taken a 10-inch kitchen television/DVD player combo set from the electronics department in Kmart. He placed the TV in a shopping cart and proceeded out the door without paying, police said.

He was caught outside the store and taken back inside where police were called. Highfield noticed Dunagan had been caught and then ran, police said.

Staff Writer Nick Godfrey contributed to this report.