Repeat offender on parole for murder tied to brutal jail assault, escape hours after robbery

One of 4 Texas teens accused of violently escaping a section jailhouse was reportedly connected parole for execution erstwhile helium allegedly chopped disconnected his ankle show and robbed a store earlier this month. 

The incidental unfolded conscionable earlier 2 a.m. connected Jan. 11, erstwhile Edmound Guillory, 19; Desean Dillard, 17; Devontae Simon, 18; and Clayton Johnson, 17, were arrested aft allegedly robbing a Sugar Land CVS, according to FOX 26. 

Police said the 4 suspects physically assaulted a store clerk and fled with a container of cash, the outlet reported. The clerk sustained insignificant injuries and did not necessitate hospitalization. 

Following the alleged robbery, authorities subsequently apprehended the 4 suspects and booked them into the section jailhouse connected aggregate charges, including aggravated robbery.

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Edmound Guillory is facing aggregate felony charges of engaging successful an organized transgression act, flight causing superior bodily wounded with menace of a deadly weapon, aggravated battle against a nationalist servant, violating parole and 3 counts of aggravated robbery stemming from an alleged CVS robbery and convulsive jailhouse flight successful Sugar Land, Texas connected Jan. 11, 2026. Guillory was antecedently "found delinquent" successful a fatal 2022 shooting successful Houston, according to reports. (Sugar Land Police Department)

Later the aforesaid day, astatine astir 4:50 p.m., a Sugar Land Police Department jailer went to cheque connected 1 of the 4 suspects but was assaulted arsenic helium opened the jailhouse cell, FOX 26 reported. 

According to tribunal records obtained by ABC 13, the jailer’s caput was stomped connected "approximately 6 to 7 times" successful the brutal attack, and was near unconscious with aggregate heavy wound marks, a breached chemoreceptor and terrible lacerations. 

The fishy allegedly liable for the onslaught past released the different 3 prisoners, and the radical managed to escape, according to FOX 26.

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Devontae Simon is facing aggregate charges stemming from an alleged aggravated robbery and convulsive jailhouse flight successful Sugar Land, Texas, connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Sugar Land Police Department)

However, they were located by authorities and taken backmost into custody astatine astir 6:20 p.m. – little than 2 hours aft the alleged attack. The 4 suspects are present facing further charges ranging from flight to attempted murder, the Sugar Land Police Department said successful a societal media post. 

Following the incident, Harris County prosecutors reportedly said they warned the tribunal that Guillory was unsafe and had antecedently tried to support him successful custody aft a erstwhile conviction. 

"In existent time, we thought this young idiosyncratic was a menace to the community," John Jordan, enforcement bureau main with the Harris County District Attorney's Office, told ABC 13. "And it seems like, based connected his caller transgression behavior, we were right."

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Desean Dillard is facing aggregate charges stemming from an alleged aggravated robbery and convulsive jailhouse flight successful Sugar Land, Texas, connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Sugar Land Police Department)

Court records obtained by the outlet bespeak that Guillory was "found delinquent" successful the fatal shooting of 59-year-old Anthony Merchant, a begetter and hubby who worked arsenic a car salesman. 

The homicide reportedly occurred successful southeast Houston successful June 2022, with constabulary adding that then-15-year-old Guillory was 1 of the shooters. 

In 2024, Guillory was arrested and sentenced to 17 years successful situation by a juvenile justice successful Harris County. However, upon reevaluation by the tribunal up of Guillory turning 19 years old, helium was released connected parole aft serving conscionable a fraction of his sentence.

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Clayton Johnson is facing aggregate charges stemming from an alleged aggravated robbery and convulsive jailhouse flight successful Sugar Land, Texas, connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Sugar Land Police Department)

"There are consequences erstwhile you springiness a accidental to idiosyncratic who is simply a convulsive offender," Jordan reportedly said.

While judges are prohibited from commenting connected cases successful Texas, Juvenile Division Chief astatine the Harris County Public Defender's Office Steven Halpert reportedly weighed successful connected the sensitivity surrounding sentencing juvenile offenders. 

"We don't privation judges who automatically transportation kids, and we don't privation judges who automatically merchandise a child," Halpert said, according to ABC 13. "You privation judges who volition perceive to each the facts. They are experienced and marque an intelligent decision. But they're not clairvoyant, and they can't foretell what a kid is going to do."

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Edmound Guillory is presently being held successful the Fort Bend County Jail aft being arrested successful transportation with an alleged CVS robbery and convulsive jailhouse flight connected Jan. 11, 2026. (Google Maps)

Following his release, Guillory was reportedly ordered to deterioration a GPS ankle monitor, which helium received successful August 2025. 

However, 3 days earlier allegedly robbing the CVS, records bespeak Guillory chopped disconnected the tracking instrumentality and threw it into the bushes extracurricular his home, ABC 13 reported. 

"There are different victims now, [and] that didn't person to beryllium that way," Jordan reportedly said, adding that portion definite diversion programs whitethorn enactment for astir juveniles, cases involving convulsive offenders necessitate a much superior response. 

"This is simply a poster kid of wherefore we bash what we do," Jordan said. "We divert and springiness 2nd chances to the worthy ones. The ones we're acrophobic of, that tin wounded us, frankly, sadly, they request to beryllium incarcerated."

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Guillory is charged with aggregate felonies successful Fort Bend County, including engaging successful an organized transgression act, flight causing superior bodily wounded with menace of a deadly weapon, aggravated battle against a nationalist servant, violating parole and 3 counts of aggravated robbery, according to jailhouse records obtained by Fox News Digital. 

He has reportedly been denied bond.

Guillory's attorney, on with the Harris County and Fort Bend County Prosecutor's Offices, did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.