Convict Serving Life Electrocuted by Drill in Prison Accident
Associated Press
STARKE, Fla. —
An inmate serving a life term in Florida State Prison was accidentally electrocuted with an electric drill, officials said last week.
Gary Leroy Tucker, 32, a former construction worker from Tampa, was working on a fan in the prison’s broom factory when the accident occurred, prison officials said.
The drill he was using apparently shorted out, said Dr. Frank Kilgo, medical director at the prison.
Tucker was serving a life sentence for murder, sexual battery and kidnaping.
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