The shooter was a federal inmate, Kelvin Simmons, who escaped from an Erlanger Western Carolina Hospital facility in Murphy.

On Monday, around 2:30 p.m., Macon County dispatch was informed by Clay County Emergency Services that the North Carolina ...

A North Carolina sheriff’s detention officer has died after being shot by an inmate trying to escape custody on Monday. The ...

A federal inmate escaped from custody at a medical clinic in western North Carolina and fatally shot a detention officer with ...

A federal inmate faces a first-degree murder charge after officials say he shot a Cherokee County officer June 30 while ...

Emergency personnel in Clay County had alerted Macon County deputies that the inmate was driving to their county on U.S. Route 64, authorities said. Simmons' vehicle was stopped and he was ...

Emergency personnel in Clay County had alerted Macon County deputies that the inmate was driving to their county on U.S. Route 64, authorities said. Simmons' vehicle was stopped and he was ...

Emergency personnel in Clay County had alerted Macon County deputies that the inmate was driving to their county on U.S. Route 64, authorities said. Simmons’ vehicle was stopped and he was ...

Authorities in North Carolina say an escaped inmate fatally shot a detention officer with his own gun, then fled in a stolen vehicle before being captured in another county.