A man who had been placed on parole after serving time in connection with the 2017 kidnapping and shooting death of 6-year-old Kingston Frazier will spend two decades behind bars for a different series of crimes.
Madison and Rankin Counties District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced Tuesday that D’Allen Washington was sentenced to 20 years in prison as a habitual offender for the sale of methamphetamine. The sentencing follows a 2024 arrest in which Washington sold drugs to an undercover informant while agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics were working a multi-county investigation into methamphetamine and fentanyl sales throughout the Jackson metro area.
On Feb. 23, 2024, Washington sold 30 dosage units of methamphetamine to a confidential informant in Flowood, police reported. Officers were conducting surveillance of the transaction and attempted to apprehend Washington after the sale was completed. The suspect then attempted to escape officers on foot. But after a short foot pursuit, Washington was taken into custody, and investigators turned the case over to a Rankin County grand jury.
“We want to thank the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department, and the Madison Police Department for their combined and continued efforts to stem the flow of drugs into our communities,” Bramlett said. “Mr. Washington had been previously convicted twice of felony offenses and refused to stop breaking the law. And for that, he will spend the next twenty years in prison.”
While a teenager, Washington was arrested alongside Byron McBride and Ridgeland High School football teammate Dwan Wakefield for his involvement in Frazier being kidnapped from the parking lot of Kroger on I-55 in Jackson and later killed after the trio stole a vehicle with the 6-year-old present in the back seat.
An Amber alert was issued after the child and vehicle went missing. Police later discovered the car abandoned behind a building in Gluckstadt with Frazier’s deceased body still in the back seat. The three involved in the child’s kidnapping and killing were arrested later that day.
McBride was given a life sentence after pleading guilty to capital murder, and Wakefield was sentenced to 35 years behind bars for auto theft, kidnapping, and murder. Washington, on the other hand, was granted parole in 2022 after pleading guilty to accessory after the fact.
Washington will serve the full duration of his most recent sentence without the possibility of parole or early release.