Fox News Flash top headlines for September 22
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com.
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
A newly arriving inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola was found dead in his cell early Wednesday, after apparently committing suicide by hanging, according to a report.
Kenneth Gleason, a convicted killer who had just been transferred to Angola on Monday from the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, was found with a bedsheet around his neck around midnight, FOX 8 of New Orleans reported.
TESSA MAJORS MURDER SUSPECT PLEADS GUILTY IN KILLING OF BARNARD COLLEGE STUDENT
Gleason was alone in the cell, in accordance with quarantine guidelines for newly arriving inmates because of the coronavirus, the Louisiana Department of Corrections said in a statement, the station reported.
Kenneth Gleason. (East Baton Rouge Parish)
Correctional officers found him hanging while making routine checks inside the facility, according to FOX 8.
Gleason was convicted by a jury April 27 of first-degree murder in the 2017 deaths of Donald Smart and Bruce Coefield, the report said.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
He was reportedly spared the death penalty at the request of Smart’s family, and received a life sentence Aug. 23, according to the report.
Both victims were Black men. East Baton Rouge Parish Assistant District Attorney Dana Cummings claimed during Gleason’s sentencing hearing that he had been "hunting Black men" during a five-day rampage in September 2017, WAFB-TV of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, reported.
The hottest stories ripped from the headlines, from crime to courts, legal and scandal.
