State Prisoner Shot While Attempting To Escape, Dies

Prison guards at the Southern Correctional Institute near Troy in Montgomery County shot and killed inmate Jody Osborne as he was trying to escape on Friday night.

The 22-year-old inmate had scaled a fence at the prison when he was shot twice about 8:25 p.m.

Osborne made it about 100 yards outside the prison fence before being captured. He died about 30 minutes later at a local hospital.

Osborne was serving a sentence of 27-plus years for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder, among other charges. He had been convicted in Guilford County last December.