Shaquille Gray
Shaquille Gray, a 27-year-old Black man, died at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Tuesday, September 1, 2020. According to a statement from the Louisiana Department of Corrections, he was in a fight with another man held in his dormitory that morning and died shortly afterward. The department said an autopsy was scheduled for that week and that an investigation by the West Feliciana Parish Sheriff's Office and the Corrections Department was underway. Incarceration Transparency's records list his death as a homicide by stabbing, with the cause still pending.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Louisiana Department of Corrections said he died shortly after a fight with another inmate in his dormitory, and Incarceration Transparency's records list the death as a homicide by stabbing, pending.
Reported by: Louisiana Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Incarceration Transparency.