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Deadly force
Christopher James Aikens, 54, a prisoner at Blair County Jail, was to appear in Central Court in Altoona, for a 3:15 p.m. hearing when he allegedly assaulted corrections officer Rhonda Jean Russell and took her gun. An Altoona officer in the court building responded and fired one round at the prisoner, but shot and killed Russell.
This record exists so that Rhonda Jean Russell, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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