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Oklahoma Guard Killed
Loaded on April 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2001, page 8
On June 6, 2000, Joe Gamble, 29, a prison guard at the Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, Oklahoma, died from stab wounds allegedly inflicted by prisoner Dorhee McKissick. The stabbing occurred on June 5 when Gamble saw another guard, William Callaway, being attacked by McKissick. Gamble intervened and McKissick stabbed …
Filed under:
Crime/Demographics,
Prison/Jail Murders,
Assaults on Staff,
Guard Unions,
Failure to Protect (Staff).
Location:
Oklahoma.
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