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Homicide suspect who escaped custody at Coast hospital had help from 2 people

A Meridian murder suspect who escaped custody while under the watch of a Jackson County sheriff’s deputy has surrendered in Neshoba County, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell said Tuesday.

Aceon Ja’shun Hopkins, 29, is now facing a felony charge of escape in Jackson County in addition to two counts of murder in a double homicide in Meridian.

The sheriff said that two other suspects identified on the jail docket as Breanna Marie Cunningham, 22, and Keesler Vonchay Holloway, 27, have been arrested for assisting in the escape.

Cunningham is being held on a charge of aiding in an escape, and Holloway is charged with conspiracy to commit a crime. Holloway worked at Singing River Hospital at the time Hopkins escaped.

Hopkins had on a hospital gown and iron shackles around his ankles when he fled the Pascgaoula hospital early Friday morning.

Hopkins ran off after a Jackson County deputy charged with keeping watch over Hopkins took his handcuffs off so he could go the restroom.

Hopkins had been hospitalized with gunshot wounds he had suffered in a shooting about two weeks before the escape in Moss Point.

Once the deputy realized Hopkins had taken off, video from a nearby hotel captured him taking off his hospital gown and changing into a black hoodie that he had taken from an unlocked car.

He also had a blanket he had taken from the car wrapped around his waist.

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