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| Inmate killed in standoff |
| By The Tribune-Democrat |
| Published: 09/25/2006 |
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EBENSBURG, PA - A quick-reaction SERT team shot and killed an accused murderer at the county jail late Friday, just as he raised his arm to stab a guard with a homemade shank. “He was going to kill him,” Sheriff Bob Kolar said in an interview with The Tribune-Democrat. “Definitely.” The death of prisoner Torone Dixon, 25, of Altoona, capped a harrowing day at the Cambria County Prison that included fistfights, the brutal beating of the guard, the injury of another inmate and a suicide. “We're in lockdown at this point,” Warden John J. Prebish Jr. said Saturday. “We'll be evaluating what areas we'll be opening up.” Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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