Chesterfield County, VA _ Virginia State Police has charged an individual in relation to the ongoing search and investigation into the escape of two Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center residents. Destiny L. Harris, 23, of Chesterfield County, was taken into custody Tuesday morning without incident by the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force on two counts of aiding with the escape of a juvenile. Harris, a Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice employee who worked at the Bon Air facility, is being held at the Chesterfield County Jail.
The Department of Juvenile Justice says the residents used a cord of undetermined origin to choke the security staff member, who briefly lost consciousness. They took the staff member’s keys which they used to exit the unit, and then escaped through a hole that had been cut in the facility’s perimeter security fence. They then boarded and left in a vehicle that appears to have been waiting for them. It was unclear whether the residents cut the hole in the fence, or whether the hole had been pre-cut. The staff was treated and released from a nearby hospital emergency room.
The residents, Jabar A. Taylor, 20, convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and aggravated malicious assault, and Rashad E. Williams, 18, convicted of malicious wounding and robbery, were committed by courts in the Fredericksburg area, and both are due to transfer to an adult Department of Corrections facility upon reaching their 21st birthdays.
Anyone with information related to either male is encouraged to call 911 or the Virginia State Police at 804-553-3445. At this stage of the investigation, it is believed both individuals have left the state of Virginia.