A jail inmate stole a sheriff’s deputy’s gun and used it to kill one deputy and wound another in western Iowa (Monday). It happened shortly before 11 a.m. as the inmate was being unloaded from a transport van back into the Pottawattamie County Jail in Council Bluffs. Sheriff Jeff Danker says the inmate assaulted the two deputies and escaped.
The inmate, 23-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty, crashed the van through the closed garage door. One of the deputies, 43-year-old Mark Burbridge, died from his injuries. Deputy Pat Morgan, 59, was shot in the lower torso and is expected to recover. Danker arrived at the jail not long after the gunfire.
After he escaped in the van, Correa-Carmenaty allegedly shot a Council Bluffs man, 30-year-old Jerry Brittain, in an attempted carjacking. Brittain was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The inmate eventually ditched the van and stole a woman’s car at gunpoint. Thirty-one-year-old Amy Kanger of Glenwood was forced to ride in her own car before she was released outside a liquor store in Omaha. Police eventually captured Correa-Carmenaty after he crashed the car following a chase.
