One of the four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last weekend has been apprehended in Texas. Authorities are continuing their search for the two surviving escaped inmates after confirming the fourth died in a burning building.
“Escapee Jerry Raynes is in custody in Spring Valley, TX,” Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones tweeted Thursday afternoon alongside a picture of Raynes in custody. “, Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Spring Valley PD assisted with the capture. Raynes will be held facing extradition back to MS.
The investigator was struck in the leg and transported to a hospital. As law enforcement from several agencies responded to the scene, the suspect continued to shoot, Atkinson said. At some point during the two-hour standoff, the home began to smoke. “A few minutes later, the house was totally engulfed in flames,” he said. Arrington’s body was later found in the burned home and his cause of death is under investigation, Jones said.
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