Kidnapping suspect taken into custody after six-hour standoff at north Jackson home

A Jackson police officer confirmed to the Clarion Ledger that 27-year-old Jerell Lynch, a kidnapping suspect, was arrested Monday night after a six-hour standoff with authorities.

Jackson Police Chief Joseph Wade said a U.S. Marshals task force arrived at The Pearl at Highland Village on Monday morning to execute an arrest warrant for Lynch. The Pearl at Highland Village is a residential area in the 5000 block of Ridgewood Road in northeast Jackson.

Wade said when the task force attempted to execute the warrant, Lynch barricaded himself in an apartment at the crime scene.

Jackson Police, a SWAT team, U.S. Marshals and a hostage negotiator arrived at the scene.

According to Wade, a woman managed to escape from the apartment and told officers that Lynch was armed with an assault rifle.

Wade said when police entered the apartment, Lynch was not inside. Lynch had managed to get into the attic, from where he had access to several other apartments in the building, Wade said.

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Officers searched 12 apartments in the building and eventually found Lynch in the attic of one of the apartments. Police then arrested Lynch. Wade said Lynch was arrested “without incident.”

No injuries were reported among the officers involved.

According to Wade, Lynch has “four warrants for domestic violence, three for simple assault and one for kidnapping.”

“That’s the result we want. (Lynch) goes to jail and the officers go home,” Wade said.

This article originally appeared in the Mississippi Clarion Ledger: Kidnapping suspect in police custody, Jackson, MS