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Special FBI team begins prison shooting investigation today

 Christopher Collette     3 years ago
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Tallahassee, Florida - Officials say an FBI shooting review team will begin looking into what happened during a deadly shootout Wednesday morning inside the federal detention center.

The FBI says William "Buddy" Sentner, an agent with the Office of Inspector General in Orlando, died when agents arrived to arrest 6 prison guards.

Investigators say prison guard, Ralph Hill, used his personal gun and opened fire as the agents tried to arrest him.

Hill was also killed in the exchange of gunfire. Another guard, who was part of the arrest team, was wounded. He's in stable condition this morning. This third victim is not one of the guards on the warrant.

All six guards had been indicted on charges they were trading contraband to female prisoners in exchange for either sex or to buy their silence.

According to the indictment, the scheme had been going on inside the prison since 2003.

The five remaining guards are expected in court today.

Officials say the FBI shooting investigation team will reconstruct how the shooting happened and how the prison guard managed to bring a weapon into the prison facility.


(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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