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06-21-2006, 04:52 PM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A guard and prison worker were killed and one other sent to the hospital Wednesday after the guard opened fire inside a federal Florida prison as investigators came to arrest him and five others, authorities said.
When FBI agents and Justice Department investigators arrived at the detention center Wednesday morning to arrest the six men in connection with a sex-for-contraband scheme, one of the indicted guards shot at a federal correctional institution officer, FBI spokesman John Girgenti said. He said the officer fired back while trying to escape the shooting.
"The community is safe. The institution is in lockdown status," said federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Carla Wilson.
The gunman and a Justice Department investigator were killed in the exchange of gunfire, and a prison employee helping with the arrest was hospitalized, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The agents were not expecting the prison guards to be armed, the official said, though he could not immediately explain why.
The official said the guard fired with a personal weapon, wounding the Bureau of Prisons employee who was assisting with the arrest. Agents from the Justice Department's inspector general's office returned fire, killing the guard, the official said, adding that a Justice Department agent was killed in the exchange. It wasn't immediately clear who fired that fatal shot.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200398,00.html
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When FBI agents and Justice Department investigators arrived at the detention center Wednesday morning to arrest the six men in connection with a sex-for-contraband scheme, one of the indicted guards shot at a federal correctional institution officer, FBI spokesman John Girgenti said. He said the officer fired back while trying to escape the shooting.
"The community is safe. The institution is in lockdown status," said federal Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman Carla Wilson.
The gunman and a Justice Department investigator were killed in the exchange of gunfire, and a prison employee helping with the arrest was hospitalized, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The agents were not expecting the prison guards to be armed, the official said, though he could not immediately explain why.
The official said the guard fired with a personal weapon, wounding the Bureau of Prisons employee who was assisting with the arrest. Agents from the Justice Department's inspector general's office returned fire, killing the guard, the official said, adding that a Justice Department agent was killed in the exchange. It wasn't immediately clear who fired that fatal shot.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200398,00.html
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