A fugitive is someone who is running from the law to avoid being arrested or caught. They usually leave the state, city, sometimes even country they were cheated in to avoid the consequences.
Fugitives are people that have escaped from a place and are into hiding out of fear or being caught or captured. For example, Harriet Tubman. It may not necessarily be the law, for example, so people that have escaped from abduction hide to keep themselves free of the people who abducted them.
