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Bobby Everson

36 years old · died December 2021 · U.S. Penitentiary Thomson, Carroll County, Illinois

Bobby Everson, 36, wanted to move home to New York to reconnect with his family, pursue his rap career and become a truck driver, and his father said he missed him. He was held at USP Thomson in Illinois, where he was found dead in his cell in the Special Management Unit in December 2021, weeks after a fight with his cellmate. The family says he had written that he feared for his life and asked to be moved away from conflict. The cause of death is listed in prison records as blunt trauma with an object, and the FBI is investigating; as of the reporting, no charges had been filed and the family had not received an autopsy report.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody (neglect alleged). Prison records list blunt trauma from an object after a fight with his cellmate, and his family says he wrote that he feared for his life and asked to be moved away from conflict, a request they say was not acted on.

Reported by: prison records. The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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