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| Escaped Inmate Attacks Teacher |
| By WXIA |
| Published: 10/07/2002 |
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One of several inmates allowed to work alongside staff and students at Heard County High School escaped and then attacked a coach the next day. William Morgan, 19, grabbed Kathy Scott, the school's female softball and basketball coach, from behind Tuesday morning as she entered the school gym. Sheriff Henry Ross said Morgan escaped from work detail Monday afternoon and probably hid in the school gym overnight until Scott arrived in the morning. 'He said he didn't want to hurt me. He just wanted my car keys, and I said I didn't have them,' Scott told 11Alive's Jon Shirek. 'I was scared. At first I thought he had a gun but then I realized he didn't.' The man tied her wrists with duct tape, pulled her shirt over her head, and robbed Scott before fleeing on foot. Scott freed herself from her office bathroom and alerted the principal. Police placed the school in lockdown until they found Morgan walking down a road hours later. Canine units and the state fugitive squad were called in to track down Morgan in several hundred acres of woods located near the school. 'The dogs were tracking and working pretty hot in a real thick wooded area,' the sheriff said during a live interview on 11Alive News at Noon. A passerby then spotted Morgan walking down River Road. Deputies responded and captured him. Ross described the coach as, 'shaken up, scared. Physically she's gonna be okay but I'm sure she's very upset, very distraught.' Morgan had been serving time in the West Georgia town of Franklin for violating probation on an original conviction of entering an auto. He now faces charges of felony escape, aggravated assault, and possibly armed robbery. As to whether Morgan had been properly supervised during work at the school Monday, Lt. Keith Rollins said that issue is being investigated. Rollins said school officials typically call the sheriff's department to request inmates to work on campus doing odd jobs like painting and changing light bulbs. In this case, Morgan mowed the school's grass and did some jobs for the school's football coaches. Sometimes two or three inmates at a time work at the school, Rollins said, and school officials are responsible for transporting them to and from the jail and supervising them. 'My understanding is they are supervised,' said Rollins. |
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