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| Accused Murderer Escapes From Georgia Jail |
| By WJXT |
| Published: 03/24/2003 |
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A man accused in the shotgun murders of two people last May escaped from the Ware County jail early Thursday, according to Ware County Sheriff Ronnie McQuaig. James Moody II, 24, and another inmate -- Cecil Albritton, 27 -- escaped through an exterior window in their cell shortly before 3:35 a.m., according to McQuaig. He said they knocked out the window, then used a mattress to scale the razor wire surrounding the jail. Detention staffed noticed the broken window and took a head count of prisoners, learning that Moody and Albritton were missing. The two were wearing jail uniforms of a white T-shirt and orange pants when they escaped. Ware County deputies and other law enforcement officers captured Albritton without incident just before 7 a.m. at a Screven Avenue residence. Moody and Tabatha Colson, 23, are charged with killing of Blackshear boat dealer Kenneth Steve Davis, 51, and Pierce County High School junior Louis Richard Sheffield, 17. Davis was found at his home in Pierce County, Ga., on May 11, 2002, where he died of a gunshot wound to his head. Sheffield was found the next day on the side of a road in Brantley County by a passing motorist. He also died of a gunshot wound. Moody and Colson -- both of Brantley County -- were arrested four days later after a three-hour standoff with police at a Pecos, Texas, motel. Moody is 5-feet, 10-inches tall, weights 140 pounds, has brown hair and blue eyes. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Brantley, Charlton, Pierce, and Bacon County sheriff's' Offices and the Georgia State Patrol are assisting with the search. McQuaig said Moody is considered 'extremely dangerous.' |
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