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| Four inmates charged with taking hostages at Bay County jail |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 09/10/2004 |
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Four inmates were charged with kidnapping, attempted escape, battery on a corrections officer and holding people hostage in the 12-hour standoff at the Bay County (Fla.) Jail. One of the hostages, a nurse, was shot along with one of the inmates when a SWAT team stormed the jail on Monday. Kevin Winslett, 32, the alleged ringleader, Matthew Coffin, 22, Kevin Nix, 28, were each charged Wednesday with four counts of kidnapping and one count each of holding persons hostage, being a principal to battery of a corrections officer, being a principal to depriving an officer of a communication device and attempted escape. James Norton, 31, was charged with four counts of kidnapping and one count each of holding persons hostage, battery on a corrections officer, depriving an officer of a communication device and attempted escape. The kidnapping charge carries a possible life sentence. Negotiators described Coffin as "a wild man" who stalked around the medical pod with a broomstick that had been sharpened into a spear, said Bay County Sheriff's Capt. Jimmy Stanford. Nix held the final hostage with a scalpel to her throat and a needle at her stomach before he was shot in the leg, Stanford said. Investigators initially said the inmates were trying to bring attention to the jail's living conditions, but now say the men simply wanted to escape. |
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