Kevin Deshawn Lamar

Kevin Deshawn Lamar died at Macon State Prison in Georgia on August 10, 2023, while in the custody of the Georgia Department of Corrections. The department says his death was a homicide committed by another man who shared his cell. It has not said how the two men came to be housed together or what staff knew about that arrangement beforehand. The department's account is the only one the sources give of how he died.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Georgia Department of Corrections says another incarcerated man who shared his cell killed him.

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

Source

• Two inmate deaths under investigation at Middle Georgia prisons, suspected homicides WGXA, August 17, 2023