Adam Mayes is dead following a manhunt in Mississippi. Mayes allegedly kidnapped Jo Ann Bain, upper left, and her three daughters. The mother and oldest child were found dead earlier this week, but the other two girls, Alexandria and Kyliyah, were rescued by authorities Thursday night.
Adam Mayes, the Mississippi fugitive accused of kidnapping and double-homicide, died Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The two young girls he abducted are alive and safe, according to the Union County Sheriff’s Department.
Mayes, 35, shot himself in the head when SWAT team members approached him near his Alpine home, around 9 p.m. Conflicting reports were initially released about the suspect's condition, but after losing his pulse twice and reviving him, authorities confirmed he is dead.
"The girls were found alive and appear to be unharmed," Daniel McMullen, the FBI special agent in charge for the state of Mississippi, told reporters. "Officers also apprehended top-10 fugitive Adam Mayes. Preliminary reports indicate Mayes shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead in an area hospital."
A witness on the scene told The Huffington Post that authorities loaded him into a patrol car and then transferred him into an ambulance.
"After he was shot they took him to Mount Zion Church," Amanda Roberson said. "They pulled his body from a police cruiser and put him in an ambulance. I overheard paramedics say he lost his pulse twice."
Two of the girls that Mayes allegedly abducted, Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, were both found alive and safe.
Mayes and his wife, Teresa, were charged with first-degree murder earlier this week in the deaths of Jo Ann Bain, 31, and her daughter, Adrienne, 14. Authorities found the bodies buried in the backyard of Mayes’ home after Jo Ann Bain’s husband reported her missing.
Adam Mayes' mother, Mary Frances Mayes, has been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnapping. Her attorney, Terry Dycus, told The Associated Press that said his client maintains she is not guilty.
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Jo Ann Bain and daughters
Jo Ann Bain (upper left) and her three daughters were abducted in Tennessee on April 27. The bodies of Bain and her oldest daughter were found more than a week later in Mississippi behind the home of their family friend and suspected kidnapper Adam Mayes.
Police and the FBI are searching for Kyliyah (lower right), 8, and Alexandria, 12.
Adam Mayes
Adam Mayes is wanted in connection with the disappearance of Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters who were abducted in Tennessee and seen last in Mississippi. The bodies of Bain and her oldest daughter Adrienne, 14, were found behind Mayes' home in Mississippi.
Adam Mayes Found Dead
Adam Mayes was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Thursday night.
Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain Rescued
Missing girls Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain were rescued alive on Thursday night.
Adam Mayes' Home
Adam Mayes' home in Alpine, Miss., where the bodies of Jo Ann Bain and her daughter, Adrienne, were found earlier this week.
Mary Mayes and Teresa Mayes
Police arrested Mary Mayes (left), the mother of wanted kidnapping suspect Adam Mayes, and his wife Teresa Mayes on May 8. They're accused of charges related to the murder of Jo Ann Bain and her daughter Adrienne and the abduction of Bain's two other daughters Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain.
Jo Ann Bain
Jo Ann Bain, 31, was abducted shortly before she and her family were scheduled to move from Tennessee to Arizona.
Alexandria Bain
Adrienne Bain
Kyliyah Bain
Adam Mayes
This undated photo provided by the Hardeman County (Miss.) Sheriff's Department shows Adam Mayes. Warrants for kidnapping are being issued for Mayes, who is considered "armed and extremely dangerous," an official said in a news release May 5, 2012. Mayes is wanted in connection with the disappearance of Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters, who were abducted in Tennessee and last seen in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Hardeman County (Miss) Sheriff's Department)
DeSoto County SWAT team members get their equipment organized at a staging area in the parking lot of East Union High School in Blue Springs, Miss. on Sunday May 6, 2012. A man-hunt involving multiple federal, state and local law enforcement agencies is active in Union County as they search for Adam Mayes. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
U.S. Marshalls walk around a wooded area behind the home rented to Adam Mayes near Guntown, Miss. on Sunday May 6, 2012. Authorities believe that Mayes abducted Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters. The bodies of two people were discovered buried on the property early Saturday morning during the search for a missing Tennessee woman and her three children. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Mike Brown)
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents inspect the home and garage of a woman and her three young daughters who authorities say were abducted near Whiteville, Tenn., on Sunday, May 6, 2012. The FBI has said two bodies were found at a home connected to Adam Mayes in Mississippi, but agents have released few other details. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents inspect the home and garage of a woman and her three young daughters who authorities say were abducted near Whiteville, Tenn., on Sunday, May 6, 2012. The FBI has said two bodies were found at a home connected to Adam Mayes in Mississippi, but agents have released few other details. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
Six-year-old Eli Downen, left, and 5-year-old Brayden Waller write notes to a kidnapped Tennessee mother and her three daughters before a prayer vigil on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Bolivar, Tenn. The mother, Jo Ann Bain, and her oldest daughter were found dead in a home in Mississippi. Authorities say her two youngest daughters may still be with a man who abducted them. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
Hundreds of adults, teens and children attend a prayer vigil at Bolivar Dixie Youth Park, where missing sisters, Alexandra Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8, used to play softball in Bolivar, Tenn., Tuesday, May, 8, 2012. Mourners sang songs and bowed their heads in prayer as they held red, yellow, orange and purple balloons during the ceremony, as the hunt continued for a Mississippi man suspected of killing the sisters' mother, Jo Ann Bain, 31, and older sister, Adrienne Bain, 14, before fleeing with the two younger girls. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
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Posted: 05/10/2012 9:19 pm Updated: 05/11/2012 12:48 pm