A convicted murderer who escaped from a Mississippi state prison on Christmas Eve was captured Wednesday, according to a Mississippi Department of Corrections post on Facebook.
A convicted murderer who escaped from a Mississippi state prison on Christmas Eve was captured Wednesday, according to a Mississippi Department of CorrectionsAuthorities in Mississippi had described Johnson as "desperate" and "very very dangerous."
"Call your family and alert them. Send messages to them and get responses," the George County Sheriff's Department warned about the prison escape in a Facebook post. "People tend to be more generous during Christmas and let their guard down. Be vigilant and be careful." The 33-year-old has a violent criminal history spanning multiple states. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to a series of unrelated violent crimes, according to afrom Tennessee's Shelby County District Attorney's Office. In 2016, Johnson fatally stabbed an acquaintance more than two dozen times, later abandoning the victim's body in a field in southwest Memphis.
His violent behavior persisted behind bars. While incarcerated in Tennessee in 2021, Johnson attacked another prisoner, repeatedly striking him in the head with a brick, according to the district attorney's office. Johnson also pleaded guilty to setting multiple fires while in jail in 2019. Johnson received a life sentence without the possibility of parole for murder, along with 15-year sentences for each of his other crimes, all of which are to be served concurrently, according to Shelby County District Attorney's Office.The convicted murderer broke out of South Mississippi Correctional Institution in Leakesville on Tuesday around 3:30 p.m.
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