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| Inmate pulls gun in county jail |
| By Toledo Blade |
| Published: 10/20/2003 |
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A man being held in the Lucas County, Ohio, jail on charges of three murders pulled a 9 mm handgun last week and fired two shots at corrections officers before being subdued, Sheriff James Telb said. Prentiss Williams, 24, of the 2800 block of Albion Street, was subdued by Corrections Officer Eric Kemp about a minute after the incident began on the jail's sixth floor, the facility's maximum security unit, the sheriff said. There were 73 inmates and four corrections officers in the unit at the time. No one was hurt. The jail immediately was placed on lock-down, and sheriff's deputies and corrections officers were searching the facility early today for any other weapons and ammunition that might be hidden there. Sheriff Telb said investigators were trying to determine how the handgun got into the jail. The sheriff said initial reports indicated that Williams apparently was about to begin his chores cleaning the unit about 9:50 p.m. when he went to a maintenance closet to get a bucket. Moments later, Williams allegedly pulled the gun. Corrections Officer Kemp immediately slammed the closet door shut, and Williams fired two shots - one went through the door and one did not, the sheriff said. Williams then bolted from the closet, ran through the sixth-floor control booth where corrections officers work, threatened a corrections officer with the gun, and then ran outside the booth where Officer Kemp and other corrections officers ordered him to drop the weapon, Sheriff Telb said. Williams did, was subdued, and then was returned to his cell, the sheriff said. It has not been determined whether the inmate had the handgun on his person, or whether it was hidden in the closet where he grabbed it, the sheriff said. If convicted, Williams faces the death penalty for the murders last year of Carmita Dickey and Jonathon Booker. He also was indicted in December, 2002, for the May, 1994, killing of Robert Hendricks, 37, of Toledo. Williams does not face the death penalty in that case. |
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