Seven Escaped Inmates Still On The Run

One inmate is a convicted killer; another was jailed on capital murder charge.

By: | WKRG-TV
Published: February 23, 2009

COLUMBIA, Miss. (AP) - Eight inmates used part of a bed to chip
through a wall and escape from a south Mississippi jail, the
sheriff said Monday, and seven of the men were still on the loose.
Marion County Sheriff Berkley Hall says the breakout was
discovered around 5:40 a.m. and the sheriff believes the escape was
between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m.
Hall says the inmates apparently turned the bed piece into a
tool, and had been working on chipping away at the wall for some
time, Hall said.
The Highway Patrol, the Mississippi Department of Corrections
and local law enforcement officers were participating in the
search. Hall said helicopters, K-9 and other local law enforcement
agencies were on the scene.
Hall says inmate Toney T. Clark, 21, of Lumberton, was caught a
few hours after the escape naer the Improve community about 10
miles northeast of Columbia, and returned to the jail.
Clark was arrested Oct. 4 and charged with resisting arrest,
destroying city property, simple assault on police officer and
disorderly conduct.
The other escaped inmates were identified as John David Smith
Jr., 18; Mickah Lott, 28; Derrick Rainey, 21; David L. Johnson Jr.,
23; Brandon Silas, 28; Ricky Chadwick Roberts, 18; and Eric Ball,
20.
Smith was being held on capital murder charges in the November
shooting death of Joe Von Stringer, 55, in Marion County. Lott was
serving a life sentence for a murder in Simpson County.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

Seven Escaped Inmates Still On The Run

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