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Inmate escape proves fatal for CO
By Associated Press
Published: 09/24/2007

TEXAS - Two inmates working in a prison field overpowered a [corrections officer] Monday and ran her over in a stolen pickup truck, killing the woman as they fled, prison officials said.

One inmate was apprehended within an hour, and a manhunt was under way in Huntsville for the second. Stetson-hatted lawmen on horseback could be seen in the nearby fields with bloodhounds checking in the brush. The missing inmate, Jerry Martin, 37, had been imprisoned since 1997 and was serving a 50-year sentence for attempted murder. Read more.

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