Prisoners shot dead by guards after riot in US
Authorities say guards have shot and killed two inmates at a US federal prison after up to 200 inmates battled with homemade weapons in a fight that appeared to be racially motivated.
The fight broke out on Sunday in the recreation yard of the high-security US Penitentiary in Florence, about 90 miles south of Denver.
US Attorney Troy Eid said that authorities believe the riot started when white supremacist inmates targeted minorities on Adolf Hitlerās birthday.
The Bureau of Prisons identified the slain inmates as Brian Scott Kubik, serving a 15-year term on weapons charges, and Phillip Lee Hooker, serving 25 years for armed robbery.
Fremont County Coroner Dorothy Twellman said Kubik and Hooker each died of a gunshot wound to the chest.
