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KINGSTON, Tenn. - Prison nurse Jennifer Forsyth got fired last year for sneaking food to an inmate. A few months later, she got permission from the warden to marry that inmate, George Hyatte, a man with a long and violent criminal record. Now the 31-year-old woman from Utah who had never been in trouble with the law is charged with gunning down a correctional officer Tuesday in a brazen attempt to help her new husband escape. Both are now being sought in a nationwide manhunt for their role in what one law enforcement official called a "Bonnie and Clyde-style shootout."...

<p>Wayne Morgan, the corrections officer shot outside the Roane County Courthouse Tuesday morning, has died of his injuries at UT Medical Center.</p> <p>According to a Tennesseee Corrections official speaking with the Knoxville News Sentinel, Jennifer Hyatte, wife of 34-year-old inmate George Hyatte shot Morgan three times with a shotgun Tuesday morning. The shooting occurred in the parking lot of the courthouse.</p>