Fill out this form to email this article to a friend
Couple in courthouse shooting arrested
Associated Press
Published August 11, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A fugitive inmate and his wife, wanted in a brazen courthouse escape and shooting in Tennessee, were captured Wednesday night at an Ohio motel, authorities said.
George Hyatte and Jennifer Forsyth Hyatte were in a room at an America's Best Value Inn in Columbus and were arrested without a struggle, said Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
"We have found weapons," he said. "We don't know if it's the murder weapon, but we're processing those as we speak."
On Tuesday, authorities say Jennifer Hyatte, 31, ambushed two guards as they were leading her 34-year-old husband from a courthouse hearing in Kingston, Tenn. Guard Wayne "Cotton" Morgan was fatally shot.
Gwyn said the Hyattes would be brought back to Tennessee on warrants for first degree murder. Jennifer Hyatte had some injuries, he said, but he declined to elaborate.
A tip had led authorities earlier in the day to a van outside a Kentucky motel just south of Cincinnati that was believed to have been used by the couple. U.S. marshals burst into a room there, but the couple was gone, said U.S. Marshal John Schickel.
[Last modified August 11, 2005, 00:44:04]
Share your thoughts on this story
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
|
News
Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
Print
Email story
Comment
Email editor