Attorney General Lynn Fitch says Leake County Sheriff Randy Atkinson, three of his deputies, four agents of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and one National Park Service ranger were justified in their use of force against a Hinds County jail escapee who holed up in a house in the Conway community and wounded one of the deputies during a gunbattle last year. Dylan Arrington’s body was found in the rubble of the house after it caught fire during the standoff. Monday, Fitch announced that her office had completed its review of the incident which was investigated by the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. After he and three other inmates escaped from the Raymond jail, Arrington was suspected of killing a minister who had stopped to help after Arrington wrecked a stolen motorcycle in Jackson. Later, he wound in Leake County and opened fire after being discovered hiding in the house north of Carthage, wounding sheriff’s investigator Jerry Horn in the leg. The bullet wound caused some nerve damage and Horn is continuing to recover from his injury. An autopsy showed Arrington died from multiple gunshot wounds and thermal injuries.
