One of four inmates who escaped from the Raymond Detention Center on April 22 has been found dead in New Orleans, according to a Tuesday afternoon Tweet from Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones.
“Escapee, Casey Grayson-34, has been confirmed deceased,” Jones Tweeted a little before 4 p.m. Tuesday. “An unidentified deceased black male was discovered in a vehicle at a truck stop on Sunday, April 30th in New Orleans, LA. Further investigation identified the deceased as Grayson. The cause of death is pending autopsy.”
All but one of the four escapees are now accounted for.
Jerry Raynes was apprehended April 27 in Spring Valley, a suburb of Houston, Texas. Another escaped inmate, Dylan Arrington, was killed in an April 26 shoot out with law enforcement officers at a house in Leake County on April 26 and the other escaped inmate, Corey Harrison, is still at large.
“The four men are believed to have escaped from the Raymond Detention Center through breaches in a cell and the roof,” the Associated Press reported Jones as saying at the time of the escape.
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The four escapees had been in custody for various felony charges, most involving theft. Arrington is suspected of killing Anthony Watts, a 61-year-old church pastor who was shot and killed April 24 around 7 p.m. on Interstate 55 in Jackson after he pulled over to help a man who matched Arrington’s description. That man shot Watts several times and then stole his Red Dodge Ram, police said. Watts died at the scene.
Arrington also is believed to have shot a deputy during the April 26 stand off in Leake County. That deputy is reportedly recovering.
