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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas prison guard was killed Monday after two inmates overpowered her, took her weapons then ran her over in a stolen pickup truck, prison officials said Monday.
One inmate was apprehended within an hour of the escape, and a manhunt was under way in Huntsville for the second, who was in prison for two counts of attempted capital murder.
The prisoners were working outside the Wynne Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice just north of Huntsville, department spokesman Jason Clark said.
"They ran over the officer," Clark said. "We can confirm she did die."
The name of the officer was not immediately available.
Prisoners Jerry Martin and John Ray Falk were working in a field at the prison along Interstate 45 when they overpowered the officer about 10:30 a.m., Clark said. They took her weapons and stole a Huntsville city truck that was nearby, he said.
Falk was been caught, but Martin, 37, remained at large. Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials say the vehicle was been abandoned and recovered about a mile or two south in Huntsville along Interstate 45.
Martin was serving 50 years since 1997 for two counts of attempted capital murder out of Collin County, near Dallas.
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