The former Graham man who was acquitted of two counts of first-degree murder by an Alamance County jury last week pleaded guilty this week to helping another defendant to escape from the Alamance County jail in 2024.
Tyshawn Esamuel Wiley, 20, black, male, pleaded guilty in Alamance County superior court on Monday morning to felony conspiracy to escape from jail and feloniously aiding and abetting another defendant’s escape from jail, according to a transcript of his plea that was subsequently filed by Alamance County superior court.
Wiley had been charged in October 2024 with felony conspiracy to escape from jail and felony aiding and abetting escape from the Alamance County jail, where he was being held, pending trial for first-degree murder. The other defendant had been charged with felony discharge of a firearm into an occupied dwelling, according to Alamance County court files.
An Alamance County jury acquitted Wiley last Tuesday afternoon of two counts of first-degree murder in the August 25, 2022 shooting deaths of Melvin Wiley and Malik Martin, both 16, at Graham Village Apartments along East Hanover Road…