Authorities in North Carolina say a man killed in a house party shooting that left 11 other people injured was hit inadvertently by a partygoer returning fire at shooters on a nearby hillside.

A federal inmate escaped from custody at a medical clinic in western North Carolina and fatally shot a detention officer with his own gun Monday, then fled in a stolen vehicle before being captured in another county,

A North Carolina sheriff’s detention officer has died after being shot by an inmate trying to escape custody on Monday. The Cherokee County, North Carolina Sheriff’s Office says federal inmate Kelvin Simmons, 48, was being escorted by two detention officers to a medical appointment at an orthopedic office in Peachtree, N.C.