A Georgia inmate was shot to death at a hospital after pepper-spraying a prison guard and then charging at a second Tuesday night, authorities said.
Prisoner Jacob Henson was receiving medical treatment around 8:45 p.m. after being stabbed during an earlier fight inside the Washington state prison when he fought with one of the prison officers state who accompanied him to the hospital, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
Henson, 31, overpowered the officer and grabbed the guard’s can of pepper spray, dispersing the gas that left him “incapacitated to act,” the agency said.
As he went to confront another corrections officer while continuing to use the spray, that guard shot Henson, according to the GBI.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The police agency said it was investigating the prison officer’s use of deadly force and was also investigating the previous incident in which Henson was stabbed inside the prison complex.
“Once the investigation is complete, it will be forwarded to the Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for review,” the agency said.
Henson was serving an 8-year prison sentence on 25 counts, the Cherokee County prosecutor previously said. He also had to serve an additional 12 years of probation after his time in prison.
He committed a series of vehicle thefts and other criminal acts during the summer of 2018 before his arrest and subsequent guilty plea.
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