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Vaquerro Kinjuan Armstrong

29 years old · died December 2, 2018 · Holman Correctional Facility, Escambia County, Alabama

Vaquerro Kinjuan Armstrong was 29 years old. On the evening of Sunday, December 2, 2018, he was found with multiple stab wounds in a housing area at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, and he died in the prison infirmary about 15 minutes later. The Alabama Department of Corrections said it had identified another man held at the prison as a suspect.

Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Alabama Department of Corrections says Armstrong was stabbed to death by another incarcerated man in a housing area at Holman Correctional Facility.

Reported by: Alabama Department of 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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