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| Mo. inmate charged in fellow prisoner's death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/27/2004 |
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A Potosi Correctional Center inmate has been accused of slaying his cellmate at the maximum-security prison last year. Washington County (Mo.) Prosecutor John Rupp charged David Richard, 23, with first-degree murder in the September beating and stomping death of Lamont Daugherty, 29. Daugherty was found face-down in his cell as officers were performing a head-count. Emergency responders were unable to revive him. "He was bludgeoned pretty savagely," Don Roper, the prison's superintendent, said at the time. Daugherty was imprisoned July 30, 2002, from St. Louis on four counts of armed criminal action and one of unlawful use of a weapon. He originally was held at the South-Central Correctional Center in Licking but was transferred to Potosi last August after assaulting inmates and staff in Licking, Roper has said. Richard, imprisoned for tampering with a motor vehicle, was moved to Potosi in April of last year from the Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green after assaulting fellow inmates, Roper said. "They were both classified as high alpha males, meaning they had assaultive and aggressive behaviors," Roper has said. |
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