Sgt. Steven Floyd, the guard held hostage by a mob of Delaware prison inmates, put his life on the line to save his fellow officers.
(FOX)- Shouting at them not to rescue him because his captors had set a trap, the head of the state corrections officers’ union said Thursday.
“Even in his last moments as the inmates attempted to take over the building, Sgt. Floyd told a couple of lieutenants to get out of the building,” union President Geoffrey Klopp said.
Floyd, 47, was found dead early Thursday after police used a backhoe to smash through a barricade of foot lockers filled with water, ending a nearly 20-hour hostage standoff at the all-male, 2,500-prisoner James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.
Crews rescued a second hostage, a female counselor, minutes after tactical teams forced their way into the prison’s Building C.