Jeffery Alan Wroten was a 44-year-old correctional officer with the Maryland Division of Correction when he was shot while guarding an inmate at a hospital. Assigned to Roxbury Correctional Institution, Wroten was at Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown on January 26, 2006, guarding 20-year-old inmate Brandon Morris, who was there for treatment. Morris overpowered Wroten, took his service weapon, and shot him once in the face. Wroten survived the initial shooting but died of his wound the next day, January 27, 2006.

After the shooting Morris fled, carjacked a taxi and was tracked when the cab’s microphone remained on; the pursuit crossed into Pennsylvania, the taxi was crashed deliberately, and Morris ran back into Maryland where he was arrested. Morris, already serving an eight-year sentence for assault and robbery at the time, was later convicted of Wroten’s murder and received a life sentence. Wroten is survived by five children and his family donated his organs. What additional details or memories about Officer Wroten or hospital-guard procedures can anyone share?