iStock/Thinkstock(SMYRNA, Del.) — A Delaware Department of Correction employee is dead after a hostage situation that lasted nearly 24 hours inside the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, officials said Thursday morning.
At 5:06 a.m. Thursday, Delaware State Police breached the C Building, where the situation with two remaining hostages was unfolding, according to the state’s Department of Correction.
One of the two hostages, a Department of Correction employee, was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at 5:29 a.m., the Department of Correction said.
The second hostage, also a Department of Correction employee, “was safely rescued and is being examined at a local hospital,” the Department of Correction said, adding that she was “alert and talking.”
The incident began Wednesday around 10:30 a.m. with four hostages. The first two hostages were eventually released on Wednesday.
Officials said the building is secure.
The James T. Vaughn Correctional Center is Delaware’s largest male correctional facility, with approximately 2,500 inmates.
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