CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say a North Carolina parole
officer should not be blamed for failing to tell jail officers to
keep the suspected South Carolina serial killer behind bars.
A Corrections Department spokesman said Tuesday parole officer
Angela Merrill saw more than two dozen parolees the day Patrick
Burris was released from a county jail and she had no evidence to
indicate the violent turn his life was about to take.
Corrections spokesman Keith Acree says the agency is looking
into what allowed Burris to get out of jail. Authorities say Burris
killed five people between June 27 and July 2 in and around the
rural South Carolina community of Gaffney.
He was shot to death about a week ago by police investigating a
burglary complaint in North Carolina.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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