An inmate who escaped a Mississippi jail over the weekend has been captured and brought into custody in Texas, authorities mentioned Thursday. Jerry Raynes was being held outdoors of Houston in Spring Valley, Texas, and will likely be extradited again to Mississippi, the Hinds County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
Raynes and three others — Casey Grayson, Corey Harrison and Dylan Arrington — escaped from the Raymond Detention Heart close to Jackson, Mississippi’s capital metropolis, on Saturday evening. Arrington, who was believed to be related to the capturing loss of life of a pastor following his escape and who police claimed shot an officer Wednesday morning, was discovered useless later that evening following a fireplace in a constructing he had been barricaded in.
Harrison and Grayson have been nonetheless on the unfastened Thursday evening. Authorities didn’t present any replace on the continuing seek for the 2. Raynes had been incarcerated for auto theft and housebreaking.
Police have been known as after somebody noticed Raynes at an area hospital Thursday afternoon, in line with CBS affiliate KHOU-TV. He had beforehand been seen on surveillance video at a fuel station alongside Interstate 10 round that space, KHOU reported.Â
Raynes was taken into custody at a Houston hospital earlier than he could possibly be discharged after looking for remedy for an unspecified medical situation, in line with the U.S. Marshals Service. Â
The USMS, Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace and Spring Valley Police Division all assisted in Raynes’ apprehension, the Hinds County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
“We’re simply glad an arrest was made,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez advised KHOU.
“He was taken into custody pretty quickly and, so, we’re glad, once more, that it is over and that nobody was harm right here in our group,” Gonzalez added.
The 4 males are believed to have escaped from the Raymond Detention Heart by way of breaches in a cell and the roof. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones mentioned the lads may need camped out on the roof earlier than fleeing and going their separate methods. Â
In July, U.S. District Decide Carlton Reeves ordered a uncommon takeover of the Raymond jail after he mentioned deficiencies in supervision and staffing led to “a surprising array of assaults, in addition to deaths.” However earlier than the appointed receiver was scheduled to imagine management over the jail Jan. 1, the U.S. fifth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals stayed the decrease court docket’s order till it dominated on the county’s movement for reconsideration.
The issues on the Raymond facility date again years. The U.S. Justice Division sued Hinds County in 2016 after discovering unconstitutional circumstances on the jail, together with violence amongst detainees and by workers towards detainees. It additionally discovered issues with the remedy of juveniles and suicidal detainees. And, it mentioned, there have been cell doorways that will not lock.
The 4 escapees had been in custody for numerous felony costs, most involving theft.
The person Arrington is suspected of killing was Anthony Watts, a 61-year-old church pastor who was shot and killed Monday round 7 p.m. on Interstate 55 in Jackson after he pulled over to assist a person who matched Arrington’s description. That man shot Watts a number of instances after which stole his Pink Dodge Ram, police mentioned. Watts died on the scene.
Arrington later broke into a house in Conway, Mississippi, the place he shot a deputy, set the residence on hearth and died.
