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Tydrick Davis has been arrested today in the North Texas town of Corinth by members of the U.S. Marshals Service after his mistaken release from the TDCJ, according to information Sheriff Zena Stephens provided to KFDM News. He's charged with Capital Murder and awaiting trial with two other suspects for the shooting of Ebonie Gilbert.
Sheriff Stephens says since learning of his release, members of the JCSO U.S. Marshals Task Force worked with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to find and capture Davis.
She says the Sheriff's Office has remained in contact with the family of Ebonie Gilbert. Davis, 21, is charged with Capital Murder in the 2024 shooting death of the 39-year-old woman outside of her home in Beaumont. He's awaiting trial with two other suspects. Police say Gilbert came outside and interrupted the suspects burglarizing her car.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice told us Davis was sent to the Larry Gist State Jail last November 4 to serve a Jefferson County sentence for theft. The sentence was one year and nine months, and Davis was released March 30 with credit for time served in the county jail.
The Sheriff's Office tells KFDM it had a detainer filed on Davis that should have prevented his release and he should have been returned to Jefferson County by the TDCJ
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice told us Davis was sent to the Larry Gist State Jail last November 4 to serve a Jefferson County sentence for theft. The sentence was one year and nine months, and Davis was released March 30 with credit for time served in the county jail.
KFDM learned of the story when Ward 1 Councilman Cory Crenshaw told us he heard about at the courthouse. We've been told that prosecutors discovered it while they were making plans for a future trial and asked about Davis. Sheriff Zena Stephens says JCSO wouldn't have known Davis had completed his prior sentence unless someone from TDCJ had contacted them, which she says didn't happen. Sheriff Stephens tells KFDM they immediately began looking for Davis, along with other law enforcement agencies, as soon as they learned he had been released.
TDCJ told us there were no detainers placed on Davis to ensure he was returned to JCSO after serving the separate sentence. But Sheriff Stephens sent a copy of the detainer to KFDM, signed by both the Sheriff's Office and TDCJ, with a box checked indicating Davis must be returned to Jefferson County when he is released from state prison. She says the detainer wasn't dated but the entire packet of information about him, sent to TDCJ, was dated.
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