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Autopsy Results Pending for Hostage-Taking Prison Inmate
PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- A southern Illinois coroner says results of an autopsy on a prison inmate shot and killed during a hostage standoff won't be available for several weeks.

Perry County Coroner Paul Searby says he's deferring comment about 37-year-old Alonje) Walton's death at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center until a pathologist files a final report.

Illinois State Police are investigating circumstances involving Walton's taking a 62-year-old female employee hostage and causing a nearly seven-hour standoff before he was shot and killed.

The employee was rescued and evaluated by medical personnel.

Corrections officials say the offender was serving a sentence for aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping. The crimes took place in Cook County.

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