For matcom: Inmates Charged With Plot to Get Shot, Sue D.C.

[T Roosevelt]

By Henri E. Cauvin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 8, 2004; Page B01

Three inmates have been indicted on charges that they arranged to be shot while in the D.C. jail so that they could sue the city for failing to protect them.

The men, who were shot Dec. 20 in the jail's maximum-security wing, claimed they were the victims of an unknown assailant. In fact, one of them was the triggerman in the incident, according to an indictment filed late Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court.

Shawn Gray, 32, smuggled a small-caliber handgun into the jail and used it to shoot himself and two other indicted inmates, Frederick Robinson, 40, and Leonard Johnson, 27, as well as a fourth inmate, Jamal Jefferson, 23, prosecutors said.

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[Commendatori]

1. I know this was for someone else, but

thanks for posting it. I was in the emergency room at G.W. when a couple of those prisoners were wheeled in, so this was of particular interest to me.

[T Roosevelt]

2. Trying to become a "cub reporter" for matcom...

;-)