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| Cops: LCI inmate murders fellow prisoner over $30 |
| By dailycommercial.com- Frank Stanfield |
| Published: 02/06/2018 |
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CLERMONT — What does it take for man to kill a fellow prisoner? In June, all it took was an argument over a few dollars’ worth of items purchased in Lake Correctional Institution’s canteen. Investigators have filled notebooks with statements about an unpaid debt, a threat, a shove, a call for a homemade knife, and an attack so quick that inmates thought it was a punch, not a piece of broken fence that was thrust into a man’s chest. Antonio Carter, 44, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Adonis Boone, 27, on June 8. It’s not a whodunit. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement interviewed more than a dozen eyewitnesses, both prisoners and corrections officers, though defense attorneys might mount a self-defense claim. But the case sheds some light on life — and death — behind the walls of the prison packed with men boiling with rage, including some with nothing to lose because they are already serving what amounts to life behind bars. Read More. |
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