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| Inmate death at Mass. hospital an apparent homicide |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/30/2004 |
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An inmate at the state facility for defendants undergoing psychiatric evaluations was apparently strangled to death by another prisoner on Saturday morning, according to prisons Commissioner Kathleen M. Dennehy. William Mosher, 32, was found unconscious on the floor of his cell at Bridgewater State Hospital just before noon with something wrapped around his neck, Dennehy said. She would not specify exactly what it was. The Plymouth District Attorney's office and state police are investigating the death as an "apparent homicide," Dennehy said. Mosher arrived at the hospital on July 24 from Middlesex County, where he had been awaiting trial on charges of trafficking in OxyContin. His death comes just over a year after defrocked pedophile priest John J. Geoghan was slain in his state prison cell by another prisoner. Mosher's body was discovered after a patient informed an officer on the maximum security unit that there was a "dead inmate" in his room, Dennehy said. Department of Correction officials would not confirm or deny whether the suspect was the same inmate who made the report. The suspect, identified as Bradley Burns, 29, by an official familiar with the investigation who requested anonymity, was sent to the hospital for a competency evaluation from Brighton District Court on Aug. 9. Burns had been charged with assault and battery on a person over 60, and is also wanted on arrests warrants from Brookline District Court on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and assault and battery, officials said. |
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