An inmate serving a sentence of life without parole was killed last week in what investigators say was an armed robbery perpetrated by a group of fellow inmates.
#The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 33-year-old Laderick Cornellius Chappel, an inmate at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison outside Jackson, was killed after being thrown over the railing from the second floor of a prison dormitory around 11 p.m., Thursday.
#Five fellow inmates have been charged with murder and armed robbery, the GBI said.
GBI Special Agent-in-Charge Tom Davis of the Milledgeville office said Tuesday that the robbery took place in Chappel’s cell. He said several men entered the cell while others waited outside the cell. “The otherAn inmate serving a sentence of life without parole was killed last week in what investigators say was an armed robbery perpetrated by a group of fellow inmates.
#The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 33-year-old Laderick Cornellius Chappel, an inmate at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison outside Jackson, was killed after being thrown over the railing from the second floor of a prison dormitory around 11 p.m., Thursday.
#Five fellow inmates have been charged with murder and armed robbery, the GBI said.
#GBI Special Agent-in-Charge Tom Davis of the Milledgeville office said Tuesday that the robbery took place in Chappel’s cell. He said several men entered the cell while others waited outside the cell. “The others were just outside, down the hall,” he said.
#Chappel confronted the men and a fight ensued, Davis said. “They actually got into a fight and during the fight, he was thrown over the rail,” Davis said.
#Davis said two of the five men were armed with shanks, and that Chappel was robbed of food and personal items.
#An autopsy on Chappel performed Friday morning concluded the man died of blunt force trauma caused by the fall, the GBI said.
#The five charged in Chappel’s death are: William Woodrow Wells, 21, of Louisville, Ga.; Dante Ray Myles, 27, of Covington; Niko Lamar Swann, 23, of Atlanta; Demarcus D. Crew, 19, of Elberton; and Justin O’Neal Clinkscales, 27, of Hartwell.
#Gwendolyn Hogan, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Corrections, told the Jackson Progress-Argus in an e-mail Tuesday afternoon that inmates in the dorm are allowed to move freely Sundays through Thursdays until 11:30 p.m., and later on Fridays, Saturdays and state holidays. She also confirmed that there was one correctional officer present at the time of the incident.
#She said in the e-mail that the inmates involved have been segregated.
#Department of Corrections records show Chappel, of Albany, was serving a sentence of life without parole on a 2010 murder charge from Dougherty County.
#The Albany Herald newspaper reports that Chappel was serving a life sentence in the pipe-beating death of 54-year-old Frankie Carr. The newspaper reports Chappel was arrested in connection with the death Nov. 12, 2010 in Atlanta.
More like this storys were just outside, down the hall,” he said.
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#The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said 33-year-old Laderick Cornellius Chappel, an inmate at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison outside Jackson, was killed after being thrown over the railing from the second floor of a prison dormitory around 11 p.m., Thursday.
#Five fellow inmates have been charged with murder and armed robbery, the GBI said.
#GBI Special Agent-in-Charge Tom Davis of the Milledgeville office said Tuesday that the robbery took place in Chappel’s cell. He said several men entered the cell while others waited outside the cell. “The others were just outside, down the hall,” he said.
#Chappel confronted the men and a fight ensued, Davis said. “They actually got into a fight and during the fight, he was thrown over the rail,” Davis said.
#Davis said two of the five men were armed with shanks, and that Chappel was robbed of food and personal items.
#An autopsy on Chappel performed Friday morning concluded the man died of blunt force trauma caused by the fall, the GBI said.
#The five charged in Chappel’s death are: William Woodrow Wells, 21, of Louisville, Ga.; Dante Ray Myles, 27, of Covington; Niko Lamar Swann, 23, of Atlanta; Demarcus D. Crew, 19, of Elberton; and Justin O’Neal Clinkscales, 27, of Hartwell.
#Gwendolyn Hogan, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Corrections, told the Jackson Progress-Argus in an e-mail Tuesday afternoon that inmates in the dorm are allowed to move freely Sundays through Thursdays until 11:30 p.m., and later on Fridays, Saturdays and state holidays. She also confirmed that there was one correctional officer present at the time of the incident.
#She said in the e-mail that the inmates involved have been segregated.
#Department of Corrections records show Chappel, of Albany, was serving a sentence of life without parole on a 2010 murder charge from Dougherty County.
#The Albany Herald newspaper reports that Chappel was serving a life sentence in the pipe-beating death of 54-year-old Frankie Carr. The newspaper reports Chappel was arrested in connection with the death Nov. 12, 2010 in Atlanta.
More like this storys were just outside, down the hall,” he said.
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