RED ONION STATE PRISON INMATE DEAD AFTER APPARENT ATTACK BY CELLMATE

A Red Onion State Prison inmate is dead after an attack by his cellmate. The Virginia Department of Corrections report that a 47-year-old male inmate was pronounced dead at the Dickenson Community Hospital at just before 7 p.m. Friday after an apparent attack by his 54-year-old cellmate at Red Onion State Prison, in Pound. The victim, whose name is being withheld upon reaching next of kin, was serving a life sentence without parole for first degree murder and was in general population. The offender was serving a life sentence for first degree, second degree murder, carjacking, and robbery. The incident is being investigated as a homicide.

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