Utah corrections officer shot and killed

[skullduggery]

Maryland lost an officer to a hospital shooting in January of 2006. At the time it was 1 on 1 for inmates admitted to a hospital. Shortly after that policy was changed and is now like those mentioned for WA and NY. The bastard made the officer beg for his life before he shot him in the head. He hijacked a cab, escaped toward PA with fresh pursuit, but came back across the line and was captured. Recently the same inmate attempted to escape from the courtroom. He was unrestrained, so the appearence of restraints would not influence prospective jurors. He didn't suceed.

[grunt11b]

Originally Posted by skullduggery

Maryland lost an officer to a hospital shooting in January of 2006. At the time it was 1 on 1 for inmates admitted to a hospital. Shortly after that policy was changed and is now like those mentioned for WA and NY. The bastard made the officer beg for his life before he shot him in the head. He hijacked a cab, escaped toward PA with fresh pursuit, but came back across the line and was captured. Recently the same inmate attempted to escape from the courtroom. He was unrestrained, so the appearence of restraints would not influence prospective jurors. He didn't suceed.

My dad knew that Officer, Jeff Roten "Spelling", he worked at the Max prison that I worked at but left a few years before I started there to go to Maryland for more money. He fell asleep at the hospital and the inmate was able to get his gun as far as I know.

[skullduggery]

Wroten is the correct spelling, though I don't know how his weapon was taken. The inmate inflicted a wound to his abdomen with I believe a sewing needle to be sent to the hospital in the first place, so the escape sounds premeditated, not spontaneous.

[KSDog]

I say if they go rabbit you put a bullet in them. Even if you catch them.

[Cory]

Here is an update.. Looks like a patron at Arby's took the gun from him, that is why he was unarmed in the Manager's office


Arby's patron wrestles slain officer's gun from prisoner - CNN.com

[legendary_lucas]

Stories like this one give me goose bumps. As much as I complain about the conditions I thank God I work in WI. Seems like our cons are punks compared to other states. RIP...

[onceamarine]

Originally Posted by co1669

A correction officer with the utah department of corrections was shot and killed today when the inmate grabbed the officers gun while at the university of utah medical center on a medical appointment at the hospital.The inmate then carjacked a car and fled to an arbys restaurant where he shot and wounded a person inside.The imate was caught in arbys and taken back into custody.

My questions is, " Why wasn't there two armed Co's detaining this convict". " Why wasn't the convict in hand and leg restraints".

[Greg]

Originally Posted by robeans

In WA it's always 2 on one, one armed the other not so the armed person can keep a some distance in case the inmate gets stupid.

I just can't believe there was one guy running this escort. This guy was rated as Utah's Public Enemey #1 last year. Unreal.

I've been on medical trips both as the armed and the unarmed officer. Medical trips are always two officers. Some of the trips where I handle the inmate rather than the weapon I have had to watch the other C/O more closely than I did the inmate because the dip$hit kept standing too close to the inmate.

Some of our hospital watches have two officers (one armed), but most only have one unarmed officer. Each prison in Washington is like its own little kingdom, so practices can vary considerable from one WA DOC facility to another.

[Greg]

Woman will stand trial for obstruction in deadly prison escape | Salt Lake Tribune

By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 09/25/2007 01:41:59 PM MDT

Posted: 1:44 PM- A Salt Lake City woman accused of giving an escaped convict a change of clothes and hiding his prison jumpsuit after he allegedly killed a state corrections officer will stand trial on a charge of obstructing justice, a judge decided today.
At the conclusion of a preliminary hearing, 3rd District Judge Joseph Fratto denied a defense motion to dismiss the case against Trisha Tower and ruled that the prosecution had presented enough evidence to proceed to a trial.
Tower, who is being held in jail in lieu of $100,000 bail, will be arraigned on Oct. 1 before 3rd District Judge Robin Reese. The 26-year-old is charged with one count of obstructing justice for allegedly helping inmate Curtis Michael Allgier in his getaway attempt in June.
The obstruction charge is a first-degree felony because the underlying crime is an alleged capital homicide by Allgier, a heavily tatooed white supremacist who was serving time for burglary.
Police say Allgier shot Stephen Anderson with the officer's own gun during a June 25 escape from University Hospital, where the inmate had been brought for treatment of a back problem. Allgier then allegedly carjacked a Ford Explorer, stopped by Tower's house to change out of a bright orange prison jumpsuit and led police on a chase to an Arby's restaurant, where he was disarmed by a customer.

Prosecutors say Tower put Allgier's jumpsuit in a bag, then handed it off to her brother to hide the morning of the escape. They allege she later lied when she initially denied knowing about the jumpsuit. Police got a tip that Russell Tower had the jumpsuit and retrieved it from him that night.
Russell Tower, 24, testified at today's hearing that his panicked sister called him immediately after Allgier left her home and said he had killed an officer. He said Trisha Tower was scared that child protection authorities would take way her daughter and wanted the jumpsuit out of her house.
He took the jumpsuit - which was in a plastic bag inside a black shoulder bag - to his parents' house and placed it inside his father's old RV. Tower said he told his sister to have the police pick up the jumpsuit.
Other testimony at the hearing came from a couple who saw Russell and Trisha at the home of the siblings' parents the night of the escape. Kenneth Richmond said he and his girlfriend were talking with Russell about the day's events when Russell said he had a Halloween costume for him - a jumpsuit.
"It was kind of surreal," Richmond said of the conversation. Trisha was getting phone calls about Allgier based on the media coverage of the escape and seemed "kind of excitable," he said.
His girlfriend, Maria Mariano, also testified that Russell offered Richmond an orange jumpsuit and that he said, "If anyone asks, it was borrowed."
Defense attorney Clayton Simms - who noted that Allgier was armed and said his client was frightened - argued that hiding the jumpsuit did not hinder or delay the investigation. He pointed out that an officer was watching Trish Tower's home after the escape and that police were right behind Allgier after he left there.
But prosecutor Vincent Meister said quick police action in capturing Allgier does not exonerate Tower and that the jumpsuit contained blood evidence.
In addition to capital murder, Allgier is charged with seven other felonies. Salt Lake County District Attorney Lohra Miller has said she intends to seek the death penalty.
pmanson@sltrib.com

[Area51]

RIP My fallen brother.

Heartache upon Heartache for the correctional community.

With the deaths of these officers, hopefully it will begin to force some changes in the way tradition has always dictated our jobs.

We are professionals, often times operating with tools out of the 1960's. There are those among us that want to move into a modern era of law enforcement and become proficient with the tools of the trade and their proper use.

We are often over looked, and pushed to the back for regular street cops and the like. Very few of which would even consider our job and its conditions. Yet, we toe the line and hold our own. And seems lately that we are getting the wall chipped and holes are knocked into it.

We need to band together as a community and start demanding changes.

If these were street cops that were being killed, you can bet your bottom dollar that congressional meeting would be taking place to find a solution...

In correctional settings it is often an "Isolated Incident".