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Gamarus Everett

36 years old · died February 12, 2018 · Louisiana State Penitentiary, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

Gamarus Everett, 36, died on February 12, 2018, at a hospital in Baton Rouge, after he was badly injured in a fight in his cell at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, in West Feliciana Parish. The Louisiana Department of Corrections said the fight happened the previous Friday, and that he was taken to the prison's treatment center before being sent to the hospital. When the Shreveport Times reported his death the next day, an autopsy was still pending. The state's death data, which does not list names, later gives the cause of death as homicide, based on the autopsy report.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections lists the death as a homicide based on the autopsy report, and says Gamarus Everett was badly hurt in a fight in his cell.

Reported by: Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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