Joseph Agee III, 29, was fatally assaulted at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, on a Monday in October 2022. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office determined the cause of death was sharp force injuries and officially ruled the death a homicide. Reports say he was attacked by another inmate and died about half an hour after the assault.

Agee had been serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to a 2012 murder stemming from a shooting at a gas station when he was 18. The Alabama Department of Corrections’ Law Enforcement Services Division took over the investigation, and officials noted the facility’s inmate deaths that year had already exceeded the prior year’s total. No information about suspects or arrests has been released and details about what led to the attack inside the prison remain under investigation.

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