The Latest: Prisoner Who Killed 2 Was Facing Major Charges

This undated photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows Larry Darnell Gordon. The jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer, killing a few bailiffs and injuring a few more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said. Michigan Department of Corrections via AP

ST. JOSEPH, Mich.  — The Latest on a courthouse shooting in Berrien County, Michigan, that left three people dead (all times local):

9:15 a.m.

Records show a jail inmate who killed two bailiffs at a southwestern Michigan courthouse was locked up on major felony charges.

State police records say Larry Darnell Gordon was charged in April with criminal sexual conduct, assault with a dangerous weapon and kidnapping.

Authorities say the 44-year-old inmate overpowered a sheriff’s deputy at the Berrien County courthouse Monday, took his gun and killed two bailiffs. The deputy and a woman were injured.

Officers subsequently killed Gordon.

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