Eight prisoners were behind a locked door on June 23 in the holding cell of the District Courts Building in Parker County when the officer slumped over after joking with them.
“He just fell over,” inmate Nick Kelton told the station. “Looked like an act. Could have died right there.”
After Kelton and the other inmates realized something was wrong, they started yelling for help. When no one came, they broke out of the holding room.
The guard didn’t have a pulse, so the inmates started shouting and banging on