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| Luzerne County Correctional Officer and Inmate die in "freak accident" during scuffle |
| By thetimes-tribune.com- James Halpin |
| Published: 07/20/2016 |
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WILKES-BARRE — The correctional officer and inmate killed in a fall Monday evening smashed through closed elevator doors and plummeted to their deaths during a scuffle in what appears to have been a “freak accident” at Luzerne County Correctional Facility, the county manager said Tuesday. Correctional Officer Kristopher Moules, 25, of Larksville, and inmate Timothy D. Gilliam Jr., 27, of Wilkes-Barre, died following the confrontation on the aging jail’s fifth floor about 6:25 p.m. Monday. The pair had been engaged in a confrontation that began as an exchange of words between inmate and officer and escalated into an altercation that spilled out into a common area near the elevator, county Manager David Pedri said Tuesday afternoon. Read More. |
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