The two inmates who remained at large for nearly a month after escaping the Perry County Correctional PREP Center in Uniontown are back in custody. This closes out the search that began with the May 30 breakout, putting all four escapees, along with the woman accused of driving their getaway car, behind bars.
Marquavious Billingsley, 24, and Kevin Gunn, 19, both of Dallas County, were captured June 24 after a two-hour standoff at the GWC Homes apartment complex in Selma. The U.S. Marshals Service discovered the pair were holed up at the location and coordinated with Selma police. The men barricaded themselves inside an apartment, refusing to leave even as officers deployed tear gas and pepper balls. The standoff ended peacefully with their surrender; authorities later confirmed they had information the men were armed with a pistol. Both face additional escape charges.
The four men originally escaped the Uniontown facility at 1:29 a.m. on May 30 by staging a fake medical emergency. One inmate pretended to need medical attention before the group forced their way through the center, overpowered a correctional officer, and fled to a waiting vehicle.
Keivona Shabrion Lewis, 29, of Selma, was arrested within two hours of the breakout. She is being held without bond, charged with one count of permitting or aiding an escape in the first degree and four counts of first-degree hindering prosecution. Investigators allege she drove the four men roughly 30 miles to her Selma apartment, where they changed clothes and hid.
The other two escapees were quickly apprehended within a day of the breakout:
- Jaden Christopher Maxwell, 21, surrendered on May 31.
- Johnny Dave Harris Bush Jr., 29, was arrested the same day in Midfield after a license plate reader flagged the stolen vehicle he was driving. He is held at the Jefferson County Jail pending extradition. Both Maxwell and Bush have been charged with first-degree escape.
Court records reveal that Billingsley, Gunn, and Bush were not actually part of the PREP Center’s reentry program. Instead, they were Dallas County jail inmates held at the state facility under a special arrangement.
Billingsley had previously pleaded guilty to felony murder on August 21, 2025, for the 2018 shooting death of Kenbranesha Rayford in Selma, when he was 16. He was sentenced to a 240-month split sentence but was released directly onto probation due to accumulating 79 months of jail credit. Less than four months later, on December 3, 2025, he was charged with first-degree assault for beating a man with a gun. A probation revocation hearing was scheduled for May 28—just two days before the escape—where he faced up to 15 years of suspended prison time.
Gunn, the youngest escapee, was indicted in October 2025 on three severe felonies: first-degree robbery for a gunpoint heist, trafficking in stolen identities, and converting a pistol to a machine gun using an auto-sear “switch.” His robbery trial was scheduled for October 5.
This escape has intense renewed attention on the facility’s structural arrangement. The Dallas County Jail has been completely closed since an EF-2 tornado struck Selma in January 2023, forcing the county to house its inmates in Uniontown. Notably, just one day before the escape on May 29, the Dallas County Commission approved a $21 million bid for the final phase of jail reconstruction, a project estimated to take 14 to 18 months.
This breakout was not the first security lapse involving the temporary Dallas County population. In December 2025, another Dallas County inmate at the same facility attempted to orchestrate his own fraudulent release by making phone calls while impersonating a jail staff member.
