An inmate who escaped from a prison in Mississippi is suspected of murdering a pastor that stopped to help him while he was pulled over on the side of the road and stealing his pickup truck.
Dylan Arrington is one of four inmates reported to have escaped from Raymond Detention Center near Jackson, Mississippi, on Saturday night. The other three inmates were Casey Grayson, Corey Harrison and Jerry Raynes.
The inmates escaped through breaches in a cell and the roof. According to Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones, he said the men probably camped on the roof before fleeing and going their separate ways.
The 22-year-old is suspected of killing Anthony Watts, 61, around 7 p.m. on Monday night. He reportedly shot and killed Watts when the pastor pulled over to help a man who had wrecked a motorcycle. Police say that the man who Watts helped shot him several times and stole his Red Dodge Ram truck, and that man was Arrington.
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The pastor reportedly died at the scene.
Watts was the head pastor of St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church in D’Lo, Mississippi.
“Not only was he my dad, but he was also my pastor, and he knew how to balance both well,” Watts’ daughter Kristin Watts said in a statement. “Many times us PKs [preachers’ kids] are under a radar of perfection. He used to always tell me, ‘You are not the preacher, and you need to live your life, but you know how to act, as well. Me and your mama raised you, but what you do with that is on you.”
Police said Watts’ stolen Red Dodge Ram was last seen heading south on Interstate 55 in Terry, Mississippi.
“Based on information gathered from investigators, the suspect … fit the description of 22-year-old Dylan Arrington,” Jackson Police Chief James E. Davis said.
Hinds County Sheriff’s office said in…
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