Kingston courthouse shooting

George Hyatte pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting in 2009 and was sentenced to life in prison as part of a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty.

Officer Morgan's partner returned fire as the escaping prisoner climbed inside his wife's vehicle.

The couple was captured after a cab driver named Mike Wagers drove them from Erlanger, Kentucky, to a Best Value Inn.

On September 17, 2007, Jennifer Hyatte pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

As a condition of the plea bargain which allowed her to avoid the death penalty, she agreed to testify against George Hyatte.

The Roane County Courthouse in Kingston, Tennessee , site of the shooting