David Watson
David Michael Watson, 26, died while held at Baldwin State Prison near Milledgeville, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections said he was pronounced dead in June 2019 and that the death was being investigated as a suspected homicide with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. A Georgia Department of Corrections special agent's murder warrant affidavit says two men held at the prison choked and stabbed him in his cell, and that his body was then set on fire. A 2021 indictment makes the same allegations, and two men have been indicted for murder in his death. Sources give different dates for the death, June 5 and June 13, 2019, and the motive has not been established.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. A Georgia Department of Corrections special agent's murder warrant affidavit says two fellow inmates choked and stabbed him and set his body on fire, and the district attorney has charged two men with murder.
Reported by: Georgia Department of Corrections special agent Nathan Adkerson (warrant affidavit) (the agency that held him); Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office; Baldwin County Superior Court indictment (court); Georgia Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Georgia Bureau of Investigation (outside investigators).
Sources (6)
- Georgia Department of Corrections records, via UCLA Law Behind Bars
- Inmate Death Under Investigation
- 1 charged in Baldwin State Prison killing also accused of another Georgia murder
- Prison inmate was strangled, stabbed, set afire - The Union-Recorder
- Pre-trial hearing held for state prisoner in murder case, state seeking death penalty - The Union-Recorder
- Incarcerated man indicted in Baldwin State Prison inmate's violent killing