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- Fugitive Alert Bulletin
- Escapee 9/20/97 #
W-12797
- Wanted by the Yoknapatawpha County
Sheriff's Department
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- D E C E A S E D
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- Warning to all officers--Subject is considered armed
and dangerous.
- Name: Pierce, Edward Arthur
- Physical Description/Personal Information:
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DOB: 10/17/72
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HEIGHT: 5'8"
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COMP: MEDIUM
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POB: Denton Texas
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WEIGHT: 155
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MARKS/SCARS/TATTOOS: None
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SEX: MALE
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EYES: Brown
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RACE: WHITE
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HAIR: Light Brown Goatee, may be clean shaven
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- CLOTHING: Wearing dark blue jeans, white
t-shirt, when last seen. Likely in possession of a light
blue short sleeved Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's Deputy
shirt with the insignia of the Yoknapatawpha County
Sheriff's Department, emblem patch on right front pocket
and left arm sleeve taken from scene.
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- WEAPON: Subject believed to be in possession
of Sheriff's department .357 magnum handgun removed from
the scene.
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- LAST SEEN: 3:35 pm Saturday, September 20,
1997 Oxford, MS escaping scene of accident of
Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's van Jackson Avenue West,
Oxford, MS. Accident occurred in transport from the
Yoknapatawpha County Detention Center, Jackson Avenue to
the Metro Narcotics Offices jail facility on North Lamar
Avenue, Oxford. Escaped in conjunction with fugitive
Anthony Marcus Phelps, see Fugitive Alert Bulletin #
W-12897.
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- Known aliases: Ed, Kenneth Johnson
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- Known associates and locations:
- Family:
- Alison Pierce, music professor at University of North
Texas, mother
- George Pierce, Denton City Attorney, father
- Home address: 3574 Sam Houston Drive, Dallas, Texas
- Xavier Pierce, systems administrator for AT&T,
NYC, brother
- Home address: 1575 No. Mountain View, Apt.106,
Flushing, New York
- Other:
- Victoria Symons, 824 University Ave., Apt. 2, Oxford,
MS
- Employed: Proud Larry's Bar, Oxford, MS 4 pm to 12:00
am shift.
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- Offense/Charges:
- Kidnap and unlawful detention
- First degree Murder
- Assault with a deadly weapon against a Deputy
Sheriff, 9/5/97
- Felony charges of escape, with violence, from
detention and confinement 9/20/97
- Felony charges of manslaughter in the death of a
peace officer in the commission of a felony escape
9/20/97
- Suspect in:
- Grand theft auto 9/20/97 Oxford, MS
- UPDATED INFORMATION
9/27/97:
Subject is believed to be
traveling with Victoria Lee Symons, see Fugitive Bulletin
# W-12997 in a brown 1986 Buick LeSabre. Symons was last
seen at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, September 21, 1997 Amite, LA
at Heritage Inn, Highway 16 and Highway 51.
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- UPDATED
INFORMATION 10/17/97:
- Edward Arthur Pierce was located
in Las Vegas, NV 10/17/97 and died in a gun battle
resisting arrest.
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- There is a $10,000 reward offered for information
leading to the apprehension of the subject.
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- Fugitive Apprehension Contact:
- Yoknapawtapha County Sheriff's Office
- Sheriff Charles Lamar
- Detective Terrence Nelson
- Mississippi State Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit
- Fugitive Apprehension Unit Duty Officer
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- Case details and background on the
fugitive is also available.
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