{"id":106293,"date":"2024-07-07T00:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T00:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/two-fugitive-murder-suspects-who-escaped-mississippi-jail-caught-following-manhunt\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T00:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T00:06:58","slug":"two-fugitive-murder-suspects-who-escaped-mississippi-jail-caught-following-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/two-fugitive-murder-suspects-who-escaped-mississippi-jail-caught-following-manhunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Two fugitive murder suspects who escaped Mississippi jail caught following manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-06\/Claiborne%20County%20Sheriff%20Department_070624_Mississippi%20Fugitives.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Claiborne County Sheriff Department<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(HAZLEHURST, Miss.) &#8212; Police in Mississippi said Saturday they caught two murder suspects who escaped from a jail early Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrekennel Collins, 24, and Dezarrious Johnson, 18, were found in an abandoned home Saturday around noon by officers, following a 33-hour manhunt, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects, who escaped from the Claiborne County Detention Center around 2:20 a.m. Friday, were considered armed and dangerous according to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have someone in jail and they are charged with murder, you get them apprehended as quick as possible because we don&#8217;t want them to go out and hurt any more individuals,&#8221; Jefferson County Sheriff James Bailey said, according to WAPT.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office live streamed officers putting the suspects away in a police SUV on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early this morning, two inmates escaped from the Claiborne County Detention Center,&#8221; said the Claiborne County Sheriff&#8217;s Department in a statement on social media on Friday. &#8220;The escape occurred at approximately 2:20 AM.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Edward Goods said both suspects were caught on camera escaping through the ceiling and leaving behind the outside wall, according to ABC News&#8217; Jackson, Mississippi, affiliate station, WAPT.<\/p>\n<p>Both suspects are charged with murder. Collins was being held for a crime in Copiah County while Johnson, who is from the Natchez area, was being held for Jefferson County, according to the Claiborne County Sheriff Department.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiborne County Sheriff Department (HAZLEHURST, Miss.) &#8212; Police in Mississippi said Saturday they caught two murder suspects who escaped from a jail early Friday morning. Tyrekennel Collins, 24, and Dezarrious Johnson, 18, were found in an abandoned home Saturday around noon by officers, following a 33-hour manhunt, according to police.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/two-fugitive-murder-suspects-who-escaped-mississippi-jail-caught-following-manhunt\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}