Kenneth Earl Ray II, 32, was killed in a November 2022 assault inside the William Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The Jefferson County coroner described his cause of death as sharp force injuries; the Alabama Department of Corrections confirmed the death resulted from an inmate-on-inmate assault. Ray was serving a life sentence for a 2012 robbery conviction and had been denied parole five months before the fatal attack.

Reports indicate Ray was stabbed multiple times inside a housing dormitory and was taken to the prison infirmary, where he succumbed to his wounds. Correctional officers did not intervene immediately, and authorities say the incident is under investigation by the Alabama Department of Corrections Law Enforcement Services Division. No arrests or identities of suspects have been publicly released.

If anyone has information about the incident or witnessed activity at William Donaldson Correctional Facility in November 2022, please share what is known.