Inmate killed at Oklahoma County jail identified

The inmate fatally shot during a hostage situation Saturday has been identified by authorities as Curtis Montrell Williams.

Williams, 34, had been locked up since April 2019 after being charged with being in illegal possession of a gun because of past felony convictions.

Oklahoma City police shot Williams Saturday after he took a detention officer hostage on the jail's 10th floor, law enforcement officials said.

"Our officer did not sustain injury," the jail trust's chair, Tricia Everest, wrote in an email about the incident. The identity of the detention officer was not immediately released by officials.

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Williams was awaiting trial on both the gun charge and a 2019 rape charge. The trial had been postponed a number of times, at least once because of the pandemic, court records show. 

He was charged twice more last year after detention officers reported catching him with makeshift metal weapons known as shanks. 

Saturday's incident began when a detention officer was taken hostage. Video streamed from the jail showed inmates complaining about the conditions there and included scenes of an overflowing toilet.