April 28 (UPI) -- Jerry Raynes, the second of four escaped Mississippi jail inmates, has been arrested in Texas. The arrest comes a day after escaped inmate Dylan Arrington died in a shootout with police in Carthage, Miss.
"Escapee Jerry Raynes is in custody in Spring Valley, TX. USMFTF, Harris County Sheriff's Office and Spring Valley PD assisted with the capture. Raynes will be held facing extradition back to MS. Investigation is still ongoing," Hinds County, Mississippi Sheriff Tyree Jones said on Twitter.
Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on Twitter that Raynes "was taken into custody without incident by members of the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force" and is being evaluated at a local hospital.
Raynes is one of four inmates who escaped custody in Hinds County, Miss. Police in Texas found Raynes at Memorial Hospital in The Heights, where Raynes had been a patient.
On Thursday, escapee Dylan Arrington wounded a deputy and died in an exchange of gunfire with police from a home that caught fire after he had barricaded himself inside in Carthage, Miss.