More on despicable FL prison guard

It appears that Ralph Hill really was a great guy, despite the facts, and that he used a personal weapon in the murder:

Attorney Tim Jansen, who represented Hill, said his client's behavior was "totally out of character."

"He had no criminal history or issues of violence in his background," Jansen said.

Officials said the guard fired with a personal weapon - guards are prohibited from bringing personal weapons into prisons but are not screened the way visitors are. Agents from the Justice Department's inspector general's office returned fire, killing the guard. It was not immediately clear who fired the shot that killed Sentner.

Incidentally, from a legal perspective, Hill still committed murder if someone died during his commission of a felony.