LINK: Forest Co. Inmate Charged with Beating Man to Death

From the 1490NewsBlog
by Anne Holliday

An inmate at the State Correctional Institution in Forest County is dead and another inmate has been charged with criminal homicide.

26-year-old Elwood Braswell is accused of repeatedly punching 63-year-old Frederick Kirkland, stepping on his head, placing a pillow on his face and sitting on it until Kirkland stopped breathing.

Kirkland was found dead in his cell at 5:25 Wednesday morning.

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