Images from capture of three teen escapees after manhunt — ‘This brought four days of terror to a close’
Published 1:12 pm Friday, January 12, 2024
Tayshon Holmes, 17, of Natchez, sits in a patrol car. (Sabrina Robertson | The Natchez Democrat
Tayshon Holmes, of Natchez, escorted by officers, smiles as one of the officers steps up to adjust his jacket. (Sabrina Robertson | The Natchez Democrat)
Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten applauds Natchez Police officer Anjanette Kelly, at right, who spotted the stolen car. (Sabrina Robertson | The Natchez Democrat)
One of the suspects hid under this trailer on Gayosa during the law enforcement pursuit Friday morning. (Sabrina Robertson | The Natchez Democrat)
Jashon Jones, 15, one of the three escapees from Henley-Young-Patton Youth Detention Center in Hinds County, is detained in a patrol car on Friday morning in Natchez. (Sabrina Robertson | The Natchez Democrat)
Robert Smith, 16, one of the three escapees from Henley-Young-Patton Youth Detention Center in Hinds County, is detained in a patrol car on Friday morning in Natchez. (Sabrina Robertson | The Natchez Democrat)
Tayshon Holmes, of Natchez, escorted by officers on Friday morning after detained on Gayosa Avenue. (Sabrina Robertson | The Natchez Democrat)
Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten holds an impromptu press conference on Gayosa Avenue where the three escapees were apprehended on Friday morning. (Sabrina Robertson | The Natchez Democrat)
Officers from Natchez, Adams County, and Concordia Parish along with U.S. Marshals and Mississippi Bureau of Investigations all came to assist in the capture of three juveniles who escaped the Henley-Young-Patton Youth Detention Center in Hinds County overnight Sunday and then proceeded to Natchez, where they shot and carjacked a woman at the Stanton Baptist Church on U.S. 61.
The shooting victim is in recovery after they left her on the side of the road.
“This brought four days of terror for our community to a close,” Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten said during an impromptu press conference on Gayosa Avenue, where Tayshon Holmes, 17, of Natchez, and the two other escapees Jashon Jones, 15, and Robert Smith, 16, were all apprehended on Friday morning.
Natchez patrol officers Raven Carver and Anjanette Kelly spotted the stolen car, a gold-colored 2015 Ford Fusion, early Friday morning on Brenham Avenue.
Law enforcement quickly responded to secure the area and shortly after received phone calls about the three juveniles on foot in the area of Gayosa Avenue and Fisk Avenue.
While there, they tried to steal another car and break into a home, Patten said. One of them was still wearing the shooting victim’s jacket and had the keys to the car in his pocket, he added.
