Murderer shot, killed in escape attempt

SPOKANE, Wash., June 30 (UPI) -- The man who strangled a Spokane, Wash., teenager to death has died in an attempted escape from the Clallam Bay Corrections Center, prison officials said.

Corrections officials said Kevin Wayne Newland, 25, drove a forklift through the correction center's doors as another inmate took a corrections officer hostage with a pair of scissors. Newland was shot and killed by another corrections officer as he drove the forklift into the facility's perimeter fences, The (Spokane) Spokesman Review reported.

Corrections officials said two men convicted of violent crimes -- Newland for the murder of Spokane teenager Jamie Lynn Drake, 19, and Dominick S. Maldonado, 25, for a shooting spree in a mall in 2005 that left seven people injured -- spearheaded the rampage.

Newland's death Wednesday came on the fifth anniversary of the discovery of Drake's body in the floorboards of a cabin Newland's mother owned.

Corrections officials said they don't know how the inmate obtained the scissors used in the incident.

Corrections spokeswoman Maria Peterson said officials are "still gathering information about the whole incident." The prison houses 858 medium- and maximum-security inmates.