As authorities searched for escaped prisoners this week, the Leake County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi told residents in the area to lock their doors.
“All resident please keep your doors locked and have no keys or weapons in your vehicles,” said the law enforcement agency Tuesday. “We are all working together to resolve this situation as quickly but as safe as possible.”
By Thursday afternoon, at least one of the escapees, Jerry Raynes, had been arrested. Another, 22-year-old Dylan Arrington, is dead.
“Escapee Jerry Raynes is in custody in Spring Valley, TX,” said a Thursday Facebook post from the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office. Raynes will be extradited back to Mississippi and an investigation is ongoing, said the office.
According to an April 23 post from Hinds, Raynes and Arrington were discovered missing from the Raymond Detention Center along with Casey Grayson and Corey Harrison. When they went missing from the center, so did a white Hinds County public works pickup truck.
Raynes had been charged with auto theft and business burglary; Arrington, a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, with auto theft; Grayson with grand larceny and sale of a controlled substance, and Harrison with receiving stolen property. Police addressed the escape in a press conference.
The Hinds County Sheriff’s office also acknowledged that the escapees had been linked to a carjacking Tuesday.
That day, Jackson Police Department Chief James Davis said that Arrington was the lead suspect in the fatal shooting and carjacking Monday. Anthony Watts, a 61-year-old pastor, reportedly pulled over to help a man – possibly Arrington – who had wrecked a motorcycle. That man shot Watts and stole his Dodge Ram, said police.
Leake County law enforcement put out a warning about Arrington Wednesday. However, human remains were recovered in a burned structure in Carthage, Miss., Wednesday morning. Those remains were identified as Arrington’s.
“The cause of death is under investigation by MS Bureau of Investigations,” said the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office.
Raynes, on the other hand, traveled to Texas alone, said the sheriff’s office. Surveillance footage showed him in Spring Valley Sunday.
An investigation into the escape is ongoing, said authorities.
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