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| Maryland Police Offer Online Reward for Correction Officer's Killer |
| By Washington Times |
| Published: 08/27/2001 |
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Maryland police and prison officials took the unusual step of going on the Internet to offer a reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer or killers of Cpl. Gregory Guy Collins, a prison officer at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Princess Anne, Md. 'The reward is unprecedented in the 13 years I have been here,' said Leonard A. Sipes Jr., spokesman for state police and prisons. Gov. Parris N. Glendening approved $5,000 from the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to be added to the $5,000 that citizens have offered for information that might identify the killer of Cpl. Collins. Cpl. Collins, 31, completed his usual 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift on prison officer duty at the correctional facility June 3. He started up his Toyota pickup truck, the one with oversized wheels, and began the 40-mile drive home to his wife and 5-month-old daughter in tiny Brookview, Md. When Cpl. Collins didn't arrive home the next morning, his wife, Lena, called police. They found the pickup in the woods along Indiantown Road, just 2 1/2 miles from home. Its passenger side was crumpled, the rear window was missing, and several bullet holes had punctured the back of the cab. Cpl. Collins was inside -- dead. A bullet had pierced the back of his head. Nearly two dozen police officers closed off the rural road for several hours and searched the woods along Marshy Hope Creek for clues, apparently without success. Police have released no other information about the crime scene or the investigation, saying that revealing the type of weapon or weapons used, the number of shots and any elements of possible robbery might interfere with the capture of one or more killers. Neither would authorities speculate whether the shooting might have been set up by an inmate or inmates at the Eastern Correctional Institution. Usually, inmates with grudges attack officers inside prison walls. |
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