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Separate stabbings at 2 Alabama prisons leave 1 prisoner dead, another wounded
By greenfieldreporter.com
Published: 04/17/2015

MONTGOMERY, Alabama — One inmate was killed and another wounded in two separate stabbings in Alabama prisons on Wednesday, authorities said.

The violence happened at the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore; and in the St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville, the Alabama Department of Corrections said in a statement.

Scott Reed Turnlund, 29, was fatally stabbed inside the Elmore facility by another inmate around 7 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said. He died from his injuries a short time later. A 29-year-old inmate was detained as a suspect, officials said.

Turnlund had served 14 of a 25 year sentence for a 2001 murder conviction in Shelby County, state officials said.

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