NEW BOSTON —
 NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) - Officials have identified a deputy shot dead in a Northeast Texas courthouse while escorting an inmate from a hearing.
 

Bowie County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Larry Parker says 54-year-old Deputy Sherri Jones died in the 2:30 p.m. Monday shooting in the county courthouse basement in New Boston.

He says Jones was taking 21-year-old Tucker Strickland to a van for transfer to a state facility when Strickland overpowered her, grabbed her gun, shot her and fled in the van. Parker says Strickland was found with the van about 30 miles away in Ashdown,

Ark., and awaits extradition in the Miller County Jail in Texarkana, Ark.
 

Parker said deputies and Texas Rangers were obtaining a capital murder warrant for Strickland late Monday.

Bowie County is on the Texas-Arkansas border and includes Texarkana, Texas.
 

(AP) - Officials have identified a deputy shot dead in a Northeast Texas courthouse while escorting an inmate from a hearing.

Bowie County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Larry Parker says 54-year-old Deputy Sherri Jones died in the 2:30 p.m. Monday shooting in the county courthouse basement in New Boston.
 

Our newspartner The Longview News-Journal reports the inmate's name is Tucker Strickland

Strickland was deemed incompetent in his trial. The officer was transporting him back to the jail.

Officials say an inmate shot and killed a sheriff's deputy while she was transferring prisoners outside a Northeast Texas courthouse.

Bowie County officials say the deputy was shot about 2:30 p.m. Monday at the county courthouse in New Boston while moving inmates.

They say their suspect is an inmate who then stole the sheriff's van and drove off. Authorities say the van was later found and the inmate captured in Ashdown, Ark.

No word yet on the identities of the deputy and the suspect nor how the suspect got a gun.

Bowie County is on the Texas-Arkansas border and includes Texarkana, Texas.