Arkansas police officer fatally shoots Texas jail escapee

TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — Authorities say an inmate who escaped from a northeast Texas jail was fatally shot by an Arkansas police officer after the inmate tussled with another officer over a gun. The Michael Olson was one of two inmates who were found to be missing early Monday from the Bowie County jail annex in Texarkana, Texas, on the border with Arkansas. About 1 p.m. Monday, two police officers in Texarkana, Arkansas, encountered the inmates and tried to take them into custody. According to Arkansas State Police, Olson tried to grab an officer’s gun, causing it to fire, so the other police officer fatally shot him. The other inmate, Wayde Land, was taken into custody.