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NC prison officials asked for inmates' silence after Lanesboro killing
By lakewyliepilot.com- Ames Alexander
Published: 12/15/2014

A video taken inside Lanesboro Correctional Institution shows prison officials gesturing to suspects in an inmate’s 2012 murder to keep their mouths shut after the killing, lawyers who represented one of the suspects said.

Daniel Roberts, one of the lawyers, said at a sentencing hearing that the footage suggests prison officials may have sanctioned the attack or looked the other way.

One of the officers seen making the keep-quiet gesture was Jeffery Wall, a former prison unit manager who was fired months after inmate Wesley Turner’s murder. Wall’s dismissal letter, obtained by The Observer, states that he had hidden bloody weapons in the ceiling of his old office.

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