Inmate Killed in Hostage Incident
A convicted serial rapist held a woman counselor hostage for more than six hours Monday at a state prison before he was killed by a sharpshooter, authorities said.
The sharpshooter, a member of the Corrections Department emergency response team, pulled the trigger after seeing that “the hostage was in imminent danger,” said Beth Welch, a department spokeswoman.
It was not immediately known whether the hostage was injured, Welch said.
The inmate, Scott A. Miller, 45, was believed to have a homemade knife when he took the woman hostage in the maximum security area of the Delaware Correctional Center.
Officials said Miller had been sentenced to 699 years for a series of rapes in 1997.
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