YSU grad dies in fall in fight with inmate during first year on job

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown State University graduate Kris Moules, who died after falling down an elevator shaft, was an internal team leader and a go-to guy, according to his former baseball coach.

“Kris was very dedicated to trying to be as good a player as he could be,” said Steve Gillispie, who was the head coach of YSU’s Penguin baseball team when Moules was a player. “He was a team-oriented guy. He was a guy that would hold the team accountable.”

Wire reports say Moules, 25, was working as a corrections officer at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Monday night when he and an inmate got into an altercation on the jail’s fifth floor.

The two men smashed into an elevator, the elevator door gave way and they fell down the elevator shaft to their deaths, the Associated Press reported.

Moules was in his first year on the job.

Read more about him in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.