(KTAL/KMSS) – A dispute that resulted in an inmate's death is under investigation at a Louisiana state prison, according to the Department of Corrections.
DOC Director of Communications Ken Pastorick said in a news release the incident at Southern Correctional Center in Tallulah, Louisiana caused the death of Teldric Boyd, 31.
Pastorick said Boyd was allegedly stabbed in the neck around 3:25 a.m. Monday with a shank by fellow inmate Austin Dean, 33. Correctional center staff is said to have immediately responded and rendered first aid, and then Boyd was brought to a local hospital, where he died at 5 a.m.
Madison Parish Sheriff's detectives booked Dean, who they say admitted to stabbing Boyd after an argument the two men had Sunday night.
Boyd was serving a 14-year sentence for various convictions, including racketeering, aggravated battery, two counts of a felon in possession of a firearm and drug offenses in Rapides Parish.
Dean was serving a 25-year sentence for manslaughter in Rapides Parish and a five-year sentence for aggravated assault on a peace officer; those sentences are running consecutively.
The investigation is ongoing.
