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The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections in Huntsville, Texas. The standoff was one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in United States history.
On February 2, 2013, Kyle, 38, and his friend, Chad Littlefield, 35, were shot and killed by Eddie Ray Routh at the Rough Creek Ranch-Lodge-Resort shooting range in Erath County, Texas. [4] Both Kyle and Littlefield were armed with .45-caliber M1911 -style pistols when they were killed, but neither gun had been unholstered or fired, and the ...
Polish-American mob boss and a second man killed in submachine gun and shotgun attack: Joe Esposito: Chicago: 1928-03-21: 1: Politician involved with bootlegging and rival of Al Capone, killed in drive-by shooting on steps of his house: Timothy D. Murphy: Chicago: 1928-06-26: 1: Mobster and labor racketeer shot at his front door: Antonio ...
On December 13, 2000, the seven carried out an elaborate scheme and escaped from the John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security state prison near the South Texas city of Kenedy. [20] At the time of the breakout, the reported ringleader of the Texas Seven, 30-year-old George Rivas, was serving 18 consecutive 15-to-life sentences.
In connection with his death, the jail was issued a notice of non-compliance from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards related to observations. The guard reportedly failed to check on Moore for an hour and seven minutes. Jail or Agency: Rolling Plains Detention Center; State: Texas; Date arrested or booked: UNKNOWN; Date of death: 4/26/2016 ...
Two county jail guards have been indicted on murder charges for the asphyxiation death of an inmate in Texas. The indictments, dated Tuesday, charge Joel Garcia, 48, and Rafael Moreno Jr., 37, in ...
An officer shot and killed Cox when the suspect allegedly pointed the gun at him. [185] 1993-01-01: Arizpe, Fernando (21) Texas (Brownsville) Arizpe, driving an ATV, was killed when his vehicle collided with a Cameron County Sheriff's Office vehicle. Police alleged Arizpe was driving on the wrong side of the road and without headlights (the ...
McCullough, is a 76-year-old former security guard who was sentenced in 2012 to a life sentence in the 1957 slaying of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph in Sycamore, Ill.