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| Prisoner Using Fake Gun Escapes in Wash. |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/24/2003 |
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A prisoner facing a life sentence made a fake gun out of paper and cardboard and escaped from a Tacoma courtroom Monday. Harold McCord used the fake gun to threaten officers, then shed his jail clothes and hijacked a pickup truck, sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said. He was in the courtroom for a motion hearing and his handcuffs and shackles had been removed. McCord faces a life sentence under the state's three-strikes law that requires life terms for people convicted of three violent offenses. McCord's record included kidnapping and assault, Troyer said. ''He knew he was going to be going for life in prison, so I'm sure he was very desperate,'' Troyer told Northwest Cable News. |
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