[4] A total of fourteen people—four inmates and ten prison employees—were injured during the escape attempt, which began with inmates starting a fire in the facility's sewing plant around 3:00 p.m. Two employees, 35-year-old corrections officer Justin Smith and 50-year-old correction enterprises manager Veronica Darden, died of their injuries the day of the incident.

[5][6] Two other facility employees, 49-year-old corrections officer Wendy Shannon and 31-year-old maintenance mechanic Geoffrey Howe, also died as a result of injuries sustained during the attack.

District attorney Andrew Womble alleged that the escape attempt and attack had been planned for three months, and that although three other inmates participated in the event and were charged with murder, Brady was the ringleader.

[10] Brady was subsequently sentenced to death for his role in the murders; the jury required just over an hour of deliberation to reach this decision.

Likewise, the North Carolina prison system increased safety measures by issuing body armor to guards and tasers to supervisors.