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Friday 13 OctOber 2017
Attempted North Carolina prison break leaves several injured

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) not provide details about county recycling depart- after dismissal times for the safe for students to return
— Several employees of a what happened or how ment and perform other elementary and middle home.
North Carolina prison were many were injured. community labor. Elizabeth schools, said Tammy Saw- But they were only being
injured Thursday during an Elizabeth City’s Sentara City is about 50 miles (80 ki- yer, a spokeswoman for released to adults meeting
attempted inmate escape, Albemarle Medical Cen- lometers) south of Norfolk, Elizabeth City-Pasquotank children at their homes or
correction authorities said. ter received six people re- Virginia, and near North Public Schools. Buses were picking them up at school.
The attempted breakout quiring treatment, hospital Carolina’s Outer Banks. ordered to back to their An argument between
from Pasquotank Correc- spokesman Peter Sengen- The local public school dis- schools with any students two inmates at the prison
tional Institution in Elizabeth berger said. trict locked doors at three still in transit. April led to one prisoner
City involved fires set in the The prison houses nearly nearby schools after get- “We didn’t want kids home stabbing the other several
prison’s sewing plant, the 900 adult, male felons in ting word about 3:30 p.m. alone or in transport with times in the upper torso.
state Department of Public both high-security and of the escape attempt. the potential situation that Two months earlier, a prison
Safety posted on its Twitter minimum-custody build- The notice came just as was unfolding,” Sawyer guard was charged with
account. ings. Minimum-security Pasquotank High School said. Local emergency trying to smuggle illegal
A spokesman for the state prisoners work outside the students were due to be management officials said drugs, phones and ciga-
prison system said he could walls on road gangs for the released for the day and about 5 p.m. it was again rettes behind the walls.q
Boy’s body found after 3 adults slain; manhunt underway

By KANTELE FRANKO ton, about 15 miles (24 ki- tion, including crime-scene
Associated Press lometers) south of where and cybe-unit investiga-
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — the victims were found, but tors, are assisting Lawrence
A 7-year-old boy was shot they lost him after a brief County with the case, said
dead and his body ap- chase when he crashed Jill Del Greco, a spokes-
parently hidden in a home into a ditch and ran into woman for BCI and the
where three adults were the woods, Lawless said. state attorney general’s
found fatally shot and a Lawless told the Ironton Tri- office.Lawless said schools
fourth was stabbed, a sher- bune that all those involved in the Rock Hill district were
iff said Thursday as a man- were somehow related. closed Thursday because
hunt for the suspect fo- Three adults were found of the attacks.
cused on a wooded area dead in a house trailer in The initial report about the
near Ohio’s southern tip. an unincorporated area slayings — violence against
Authorities had issued a further north on Wednes- multiple people found at
missing-child alert after the day evening, and a fourth properties of related resi-
slayings and spent hours adult who came upon dents — recalled details
searching for Devin Holston the scene after work was from a still-unsolved homi-
only to find the child dead stabbed there and fled to cide case that rattled rural
Thursday at the same seek help, the sheriff said. southern Ohio last year.
house trailer where the The wounded person was But investigators have no
bodies were found. later flown to a hospital in indication of a connection
The suspect, 23-year-old Huntington, West Virginia. between the cases, Del
Aaron Lawson, is being None of the dead adults Greco said.
sought on warrants for or injured victim has been The deaths on Wednesday
charges including aggra- identified. occurred roughly 40 miles
vated murder, Lawrence This undated photo provided by the Lawrence County Ohio The sheriff’s office said re- (64 kilometers) southeast
County Sheriff Jeffery Law- Sheriff’s Office shows Aaron Lawson. Multiple people were found leasing further information of the Piketon area, where
less said. fatally shot and another person was discovered stabbed and would compromise the in- eight people from the Rho-
critically wounded at a pair of residences in southeast Ohio. Of-
Deputies spotted Lawson ficials were hunting Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, for Lawson, whom vestigation. den family were found shot
around 12:30 a.m. Thurs- they called a “person of interest” in the attacks. Agents from the Ohio Bu- to death in four homes in
day in a blue truck in Iron- (Lawrence County Ohio Sheriff’s Office via AP) reau of Criminal Investiga- April 2016.q
Oklahoma jury recommends death penalty in beheading case

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A vived. Jurors took less than and that “oppressors don’t Lori Walkley declined to sentence, not life in prison
jury Thursday recommend- three hours Thursday to need to be here.” accept his plea. One of with or without the possibil-
ed the death penalty for recommend the death Nolen’s attorneys argued Nolen’s attorneys had ity of parole. The judge re-
an Oklahoma man con- penalty on the first-degree that he is mentally ill and questioned whether his cli- peatedly reminded Nolen
victed of beheading a co- murder charge. that he believed he was ent was mentally compe- that if he pleaded guilty
worker in 2014. Investigators said No- doing the right thing be- tent to enter a guilty plea. and waived his right to a
Jurors convicted Alton No- len had just been sus- cause of his delusional At a 2016 hearing, No- jury trial, the decision to
len, 33, on Sept. 29 of killing pended from his job at misinterpretations of the len told the judge that he sentence him would be up
54-year-old Colleen Huf- the Vaughan Foods plant Quran. But prosecutors would only accept a death to a judge, not him. q
ford and trying to kill an- when he walked inside the said Nolen knew right from
other co-worker at a food company’s administrative wrong before he attacked
processing plant in Moore, office and attacked his co- Hufford, and Oklahoma
a suburb of Oklahoma City. workers. City television station KFOR
Jurors agreed on Oct. 2 During the trial, prosecutors reported that this point was
that Nolen should serve played recordings of Nolen emphasized during closing
three life sentences plus confessing to the stabbings arguments.
130 years in prison on as- while he was hospitalized Nolen had repeatedly tried
sault and battery charges following the attack. In the to plead guilty and asked
stemming from his attack recordings, Nolen says he to be executed, but Cleve-
on the co-worker who sur- doesn’t “regret it at all” land County District Judge