Delaware prison siege ends in death
Just after 5 a.m. Thursday, after more than 18 hours of tense negotiations, a prison Response Team broke down the doors to Vaughn Correctional Center’s C Building, where prisoners still held two staffers and other inmates hostage.
They found a female counselor shielded by inmates, uninjured and protected throughout the hostage situation near Smyrna. Moments later, they found 47-year-old Sgt. Steven Floyd unresponsive; he was later pronounced dead.
“After a torturous ... ordeal that lasted through the night, we learned of Sgt. Floyd’s demise,” said Gov. John Carney at a press conference Thursday. “My prayers all day yesterday was that this event would end with a different result. But it didn’t.”
The counselor was one of several hostages who talked with The News Journal in a phone call on Wednesday afternoon during the siege. The hostage takers had another inmate call his fiancée who called the paper, then he and the counselor relay demands to a reporter.
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