Murder of David Knapps

When

28 Dec 1999

Kind

Murder

Coordinates

30.96° N, 91.59° W

Description

1999 murder of a corrections officer at Louisiana State Penitentiary

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1999 murder of a corrections officer at Louisiana State Penitentiary

The murder of David Knapps, a corrections officer, occurred on December 28, 1999, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana. On that date, a group of six inmates, who were all convicted murderers serving life imprisonment at the facility itself, orchestrated a prison escape attempt and took three correction officers hostage, and during the siege itself, Corrections Captain David Knapps, then 49 years o…

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