Five people have been charged in connection with the escape of four inmates from the Perry County Correctional PREP Center in Uniontown early Saturday, including a Selma woman accused of driving to the facility to pick up the men and hiding them in her apartment afterward.
Two of the four escapees remain at large: Marquavious Billingsley, 24, a convicted murderer from Selma whose probation was being revoked, and Kevin Gunn, 19, of Dallas County, who is charged with armed robbery and possessing a machine gun conversion device. Anyone with information is urged to call 911 and not to approach or attempt to apprehend them.
The other two escapees are back in custody. Jaden Christopher Maxwell, 21, turned himself in Sunday night. Johnny Dave Harris Bush Jr., 29, of Anniston, was arrested Sunday afternoon by Midfield police during a traffic stop after officers identified a stolen vehicle using a license plate reader system. The vehicle had been reported stolen from a Selma restaurant.
Both Maxwell and Bush have been charged in Perry County District Court with first-degree escape. Court records filed in both cases allege that during the breakout, each man employed physical force on a correctional officer, overpowering her to facilitate the escape. Both are being held without bond.
Keivona Shabrion Lewis, 29, of Selma, has been charged with one count of permitting or aiding an escape in the first degree and four counts of first-degree hindering prosecution — one for each escapee. She is also being held without bond.
According to court records filed this week in Perry County District Court, the escape began at approximately 1:29 a.m. Saturday when the inmates staged a fake medical emergency inside the facility. One of the men pretended to need medical attention.
The group then forced its way through the center, overpowering a correctional officer in the process.
