BY Bob Walsh
On Monday of this week a freak accident connected to a fight claimed the life of a Correctional Officer and a prisoner at the Luzene County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
There was some sort of unpleasant verbal exchange between prisoner Timothy D. Gilliam Jr., 27, and Officer Kristopher Moules, 25. This exchange quickly escalated into a fight.
During the fight on the fifth floor of the facility the two somehow crashed thru the door to the elevator shaft. The two men fell about 70 feet. They both died. Another officer present at the time who was assisting Moules narrowly avoided plunging down the shaft.
The elevator was on its way up from the ground floor at the time. The elevator had recently passed its regular inspection.
Officer Moules had slightly less than one year on the job.
The inmate’s death has been ruled accidental. The official cause of death of the officer has yet to be determined.
The county has hired an engineering firm to carefully examine the elevator to determine how the elevator door failed.
The jail where the two men died is about 120 years old.
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