Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 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.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Two guards were shot by the escapees during the breakout, guard Major Crowson fatally. He died in the hospital on January 27 soon after Texas prison administrator Lee Simmons assured him that he would send his killer Joe Palmer to the electric chair. Simmons then turned his attention to restoring the reputation of the Texas prison system.
SAN ANTONIO — A Texas appeals court ordered a new trial Wednesday for a Jewish man on death row — who was part of a gang of prisoners that fatally shot a police officer in 2000 after escaping ...
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 ...
Sutherland Springs church shooting: Sutherland Springs: November 5, 2017: 27: Deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. Deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history. 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting: Santa Fe: May 18, 2018: 10: School shooting 2019 El Paso shooting: El Paso: August 3, 2019: 23: Shooting inside a ...