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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Sat Apr 8, 2017, 02:32 AM Apr 2017

Authorities: 4 inmates found dead at a South Carolina prison

Source: Associated Press

Authorities: 4 inmates found dead at a South Carolina prison
Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

Updated 6:27 pm, Friday, April 7, 2017

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four inmates were found dead Friday morning in a dorm at one of South Carolina's maximum-security men's prisons, authorities said.

The inmates were found at Kirkland Correctional Institution in the capital city, Department of Corrections Director Bryan Stirling told The Associated Press. Stirling did not say how they died.

Department spokeswoman Sommer Sharpe identified the four inmates in a news release as John King, 52; Jason Kelley, 35; Jimmy Ham, 56; and William Scruggs, 44.

King was serving time for a variety of crimes and had a projected release date of October 2020. Kelley was serving 15 years for assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. He was scheduled for release in August 2020.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Authorities-4-inmates-found-dead-at-a-South-11058189.php

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2 inmates charged with killing 4 in South Carolina prison Eugene Apr 2017 #1

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Eugene

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1. 2 inmates charged with killing 4 in South Carolina prison

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Sat Apr 8, 2017, 01:15 PM

Apr 2017

Source: Associated Press

2 inmates charged with killing 4 in South Carolina prison

By JEFFREY COLLINS
Apr. 8, 2017 10:47 AM EDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two convicts each serving a life sentence for killing a mother and her child have been charged with murder in the strangulation deaths of four inmates inside a South Carolina prison.

Denver Simmons and Jacob Philip lured each of the four inmates into a cell at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia on Friday morning, then worked together to attack and choke them, according to arrest warrants released early Saturday.

Two of the inmates were also beaten or stabbed with a broken broomstick, according to the warrants released by State Law Enforcement Division agents.

The warrants gave no reason for the attacks and did not indicate how long it took the prisoners to kill their fellow inmates. They did say there is video of the killings and the men confessed to investigators.

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