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Eugene

(62,748 posts)
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 12:15 PM Apr 2017

2 inmates charged with killing 4 in South Carolina prison

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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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/293f35184b674a15b157de549650fad7/2-inmates-charged-killing-4-south-carolina-prison
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2 inmates charged with killing 4 in South Carolina prison (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2017 OP
Are these two just serial killers who missed killing? angstlessk Apr 2017 #1
More likely lifers with little incentive to rehabilitate HoneyBadger Apr 2017 #2

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
1. Are these two just serial killers who missed killing?
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 12:32 PM
Apr 2017

BOTH killed kids and their mothers...

 

HoneyBadger

(2,297 posts)
2. More likely lifers with little incentive to rehabilitate
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 01:12 PM
Apr 2017

And who may have been compensated

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