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| Murderer Kills Himself in N.Y. Prison |
| By Poughkeepsie Journal |
| Published: 12/09/2002 |
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Convicted murderer Dalkeith McIntosh, spared the death penalty by a Dutchess County, N.Y., jury in 1998, recently hanged himself in his prison cell, prison authorities said. McIntosh, 42, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his estranged wife and her daughter in the Town of Poughkeepsie in August 1996 and was the second defendant in New York to be tried under the death penalty after it was reinstated in 1995. He was found hanging by a bed sheet about 1:30 on the morning of November 25 in a cell in the Special Housing Unit at Southport Correctional Facility in Chemung County. McIntosh was pronounced dead 90 minutes later at St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, said Michael Houston, spokesman for the state Department of Correctional Services. Houston said the death was being ruled an apparent suicide, but an investigation was in progress. He said McIntosh had been sent to the special solitary confinement unit at Southport after he was convicted in August of assaulting a fellow inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in Clinton County. McIntosh was convicted July 9, 1998, of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for shooting his estranged wife, Francine Williams, 47, and her 23-year-old daughter, Eunice. Both women were shot in the head as they sat in a car in the Town of Poughkeepsie. Anthony Williams, age 6 at the time, was also shot while sitting in the back seat. He remained conscious through the ordeal -- and lived to testify at the trial. The same jury that convicted McIntosh of the murder counts voted to sentence him to life in prison without parole, rather than condemn him to death by lethal injection. |
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