KARK’s Matthew Sewell reports on Twitter that an inmate has been killed attempting to escape from the Varner Unit.

KARK identified the inmate as Christopher Wilson, 41, serving a life sentence from Faulkner County for capital murder. Christopher Wilson pleaded guilty in 2003 to killing a Saltillo woman and her eight-month-old son.

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