CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) - Authorities say a Maryland inmate is dead after violence involving a cluster of criminals on a prison exercise yard.
Maryland State Police said Sunday that 33-year-old inmate Herbert Mayes was dead where he fell inside the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland.
Homicide investigators are looking into what happened Saturday afternoon when Mayes was involved in a scuffle involving six other inmates, who all were taken into police custody.
Mayes’ body is being autopsied to determine what killed him.
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