Dallas Deputy Killed on Second Night on Job

A sheriff’s deputy on her second night of duty was fatally shot at a jail early Wednesday by an inmate released hours earlier, authorities said.

Suzanne Kays, 33, was shot several times with her own gun at the Lew Sterrett Criminal Justice Center after she tried to stop 37-year-old Alfonso Seward from entering an area off limits to the public, officials said.

Kays, who had been named the top graduate in her class at the training academy, was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Seward was shot several times by police officers after the slaying and was listed in serious condition.