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Texas Jailer Dies of Heart Attack Helping Inmate

A Gregg County, Texas, jailer died Friday evening while giving medical assistance to an inmate.Jailer Robert Ransom, 62, responded to a medical emergency about 6 p.m. at the Marvin A. Smith Criminal Justice Facility, Sheriff Maxey Cerliano said in a statement. After Ransom's apparent heart attack while giving treatment, he and the inmate were taken to Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview.Ransom was pronounced dead at the hospital, the Longview News-Journal reports.The inmate was treated and
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