A federal inmate has been captured after shooting a deputy, stealing a vehicle, and leading authorities on a multi-county ...

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 State Highway Patrol was heading into Macon County in a vehicle chase.

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 ...

The 48-year-old detainee, who was identified as Kelvin Simmons, had been brought to a Murphy orthopedic office for ...

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 ...