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Fatal end in Md. escapee chase
By Baltimore Sun
Published: 01/03/2008

MARYLAND - Police shot and killed a state prison inmate in a Prince George's County cemetery yesterday, hours after he overpowered four correctional officers and escaped from Laurel Regional Hospital, shot a motorist in the parking lot and commandeered the driver's car.

Kelvin D. Poke, 45, who was serving a life sentence for violent crimes that included kidnapping, fled from the hospital after shooting off his leg shackles, prompting a lockdown of area schools and triggering a daylong manhunt involving hundreds of police officers from across the region. Read more.

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