Man resembling escaped Mississippi inmate spotted in Texas before getting away

CISCO, TX. (WLBT) – Police say that two males in a automobile driving by Cisco, Texas, might have been the 2 inmates who escaped a Mississippi jail on Christmas Eve.

Each of the lads who escaped from the Raymond Detention Middle in Hinds County, Mississippi, on Christmas Eve are accused of violent crimes – and one is accused of homicide.

A Fb put up by the Wooden County, Texas Sheriff’s Workplace acknowledged that police tried to make contact with a silver Toyota Camry on December 27.

The automobile had no license plate, they mentioned, and was occupied by one white man and one black man. The Camry, nonetheless, evaded officers and headed West-bound on Interstate 20.

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The chief of Cisco, Texas police mentioned that the motive force matched the outline of one of many two escaped inmates. Officers didn’t get a adequate take a look at the black man to get a constructive identification.

In keeping with Sheriff Tyree Jones, Tyler Charles Payne, 31, and Traverro McElroy, 36, had been each lacking throughout a head rely on Christmas morning.

Payne was being charged with armed carjacking and McElroy was being held on homicide fees.

In a later growth on Christmas Day, the sheriff revealed {that a} white church van, which was believed to be stolen by no less than one of many two inmates, had been positioned in a physique of water close to the place the lads had been noticed on December 27.

Right now the inmates have but to be captured and are believed to be persevering with West.

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