Authorities in North Carolina say an escaped inmate fatally shot a detention officer with his own gun, then fled in a stolen vehicle before being captured in another county.

A detention officer was fatally shot with his own gun on June 30 as a federal inmate escaped from custody at a medical clinic in western North Carolina, a sheriff said. The inmate had been taken to an orthopedics office in Murphy for undisclosed treatment when a scuffle began.

The detention officer, Francisco Paul Flattes, 56, was a four-year employee of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.