Days after escaping from the Hinds County Detention Center, 22-year-old Dylan Arrington is now believed to be dead following a standoff with deputies and law enforcement at a home in Leake County, according to multiple media reports.
Arrington reportedly barricaded himself inside a home on Conway Road in Leake County early Wednesday morning, officials said, after he had become a suspect in the killing of Anthony Watts, a 61-year-old church pastor, in Jackson on Monday night. Also, according to multiple media reports, Arrington allegedly shot a deputy in the Wednesday standoff at the Leake County home that later caught fire.
Mister Truth reports, “Police said Watts was shot and killed Monday night around 7 p.m. on Interstate 55 in Jackson after he pulled over to help a man who had wrecked a motorcycle. Police say that man shot Watts several times and stole his Red Dodge Ram. Watts died at the scene.
“‘Based on information gathered from investigators, the suspect … fit the description of 22-year-old Dylan Arrington,'” Jackson Police Chief James E. Davis told .
“Arrington is one of four prisoners — along with Casey Grayson, Corey Harriso,n and Jerry Raynes — who escaped Saturday night from the Raymond Detention Center, a facility near Jackson, through breaches in a cell and the roof. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones said the men might have camped out on the roof before fleeing the facility and going their separate ways,” according to Mister Turth.
“The four were in custody for various felony charges, most involving theft. Arrington had charges of auto theft and illegal possession of a firearm, Mister Truth reported.”
Leake County officials declined to give additional information or details on the current status of the investigation.