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| Official: Spitting sparked melee |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 05/21/2008 |
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OKLAHOMA - A melee that left two prison inmates dead was a battle between blacks and American Indians sparked by a spitting incident three days earlier, a prison official said Tuesday. The two inmates involved in the incident Friday fought in a recreation yard of the Oklahoma State Reformatory Monday afternoon, and the fight quickly grew into a brawl involving convicts with homemade knives, said Jerry Massie, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections. "It looks like the two inmates initiated a fight, a couple more jumped in and then it broke out into a larger fight," Massie said. "That's when it broke down with combatants along racial lines." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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