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- It remains unclear how many other inmates were involved and how many were released.
- Part of the incident was streamed by the inmates on Facebook Live and later shared.
- The unidentified corrections officer is being treated for minor and non-threatening injuries.
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The police have fatally shot a prisoner who took a corrections officer hostage at Oklahoma County Detention Center on Facebook Live.
During a news conference on Saturday evening broadcast by KWTV-News 9, the center's Administrator Greg Williams said the incident occurred when the inmates were being given their medication.
County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III said the "inmate overran the officer" and added that his department dispatched the senior tactical team to the scene shortly after 4pm, according to CNN.
The inmates streamed part of the hostage-taking on Facebook Live, and videos of it were later shared across social media.
The hostage-taking began in the jail's segregation pod on the 10th floor, where Williams said the "inmates that are most difficult to handle are housed," NBC News reported.
Though there were attempts to de-escalate the situation, the corrections officer (CO) was held in a "hostage position" with "something held to his neck," so the team used lethal force, Johnson added.
The jail was locked down for over an hour and gas was deployed.
While there are 37 inmates incarcerated there, it remains unclear how many were involved and how many were released, Williams noted.
He added that the CO had "walked out of his own accord." Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office spokesman Aaron Brilbeck said that the officer, who has not been named, was hospitalized for minor and non-life-threatening injuries. None occurred during the fatal shooting, he added.
In the Facebook recording, an unidentified inmate is heard saying that it's nothing personal against the CO. Complaints about the Oklahoma County Detention Center conditions are also heard.
One inmate says: "The water don't work, the toilet's backed up. This is what we're dealing with," while providing video evidence of this.
When asked whether this is what led to the hostage situation, Williams said: "We don't know that. I have not had an opportunity to talk to any of the inmates who were involved in this."