(Westover, MD) -- Maryland State Police homicide investigators are continuing to investigate the murder of a state prison inmate that occurred last night in a facility on the Eastern Shore.
The deceased inmate is identified as Tozzie Carter, 37, who was an inmate at the Eastern Correctional Institution in Westover, Md. Carter was pronounced dead at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center at about 10:30 p.m. yesterday.
Carter’s body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy. The autopsy conducted today determined the cause of death was homicide and the manner of death was a stab wound to the chest.
A second inmate, Dawntay Tobin, 32, was also found to have injuries on his hand, shoulder and back. He was treated at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center and released back to the custody of ECI officials.
The preliminary investigation indicates Carter and Tobin were involved in a fight with fellow inmates on an upper level of a housing unit at the prison, shortly after 9:00 p.m. yesterday. A responding correctional officer disrupted the fight and found the two injured inmates.
Maryland State Police crime scene technicians responded to the prison last night and processed the scene. State Police homicide investigators, assisted by criminal investigators from the Salisbury and Princess Anne barracks, began interviewing dozens of inmates, as well as prison staff last night. Those interviews are ongoing today. Assistance is also being provided by the Internal Investigative Unit of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.
18 comments:
Prison where evrything you do has consequences.
thats one criminal that will not be releaseds to Salisbury to live.
5 years for a drug conviction, hardly a reason to die.
one less looser my taxes have to house and feed
Thats what happens when you are understaffed and/or staffed by people who are just there to get a pension.Some of the people who work there are no better than the inmates.Unbelievable,the place is like a barrel of monkey nuts.One of their officers recently got arrested for stealing from his PT job at the liquor store.Others fake disability injuries and abuse their power.
10:37, oh hell yeah it is! I've lived 43 years and NEVER touched a drug, NEVER been in jail and NEVER been stabbed! So, it is what it is you a**, you commit crimes, go to jail, you get the possibility of getting STABBED...duh????? WAKE THE HELL UP!!!!
And I agree, that's just one more CRIMINAL not being released to deathbury!
Well I have done drugs, been to jail and been stabbed. That mean I should be dead?
1:00pm Lets not cast judgement on all who work there. There are many many good employees down there also. Everywhere you go there are bad seeds, remember there are more employees in one place then most places on the shore. I challenge you to walk a few feet in the shoes of a correctional officer before you paint all of them in a bad light. These people do the work that most of you would never want or be able to handle. The more the democrats work to hire welfare mothers and other undesirables into these places the worse it is going to get.
Most CO's are not qualified to work any where else, no real work skills. As far as the female CO's, they just can't do this type of work. If a fight breaks out they scramble and the males come in to break up the fight. It's sad that we have to be politically correct and hire women in jobs like this. It's basically a waste of taxpayers money. All of the women could be replaced with 10% more men and still get the job done. Look how much tax dollars that would save.
7:15 - "No real work skills" provide proof please. As for women sadly this is mostly true. Females cannot (and in some cases WILL not) do the job that the men do, this causes huge problems within a facility where the INMATES should cause the most problems... And yet they get paid the same...
To: I am a stay at home married Mom who watches entirely too much TV!,
Try doing this work. Then you will know the true meaning of hard work.
For the rest of you,
I am a 20 plus year department of correctional female officer who can run circle around a lot of these men you speak so highly of. This job is extremely hard not only for women but also for men. I do agree, some women do not belong in corrections. But, I know alot of men who should not be in this profession either.
Now, if any one of you think you can do a better job, then apply for a correctional officers position and come work with us. Otherwise, most of you need to shut up and worry about the real problems in your city and county that is affecting your life.
Furthermore, I don't care who is in prison and why they are there, no one needs to die in this matter. It could have been one of your relative.
Some of you people are just cold hearted.
right, some of these people say the most horrible things my sons fatheris in this prison for driving on a suspended and violated probation i dont think he deserves to die!
That could b u, jobs & housing is not promised anything could happen that will put u tha same shoes of those u talk dwn on...
No one should be locked away if they not killing raping pedophiles or being a abuser I think the law is becoming to strick and judgmental there should not be so many jailed prisoners like it is they locking all these ppl up instead seeking ways to give them help like therapy sympathy prayer first, they not thinking about what its doing to a child taken fathers and mothers out of children life that alone is curupting a childs mind then they mad about why its so many drug dealers when its so many jobs are more impressed on how u look and not if u can do the job or not, Why is it easier to go to jail than to get in school?..They make it hard for us to live right but being as though the world not that "better place" yet we all thats not rich and powerful we all have to struggle ... if they doing they job and getting killers off the streets why are their still so many killings kidnapping rapes still going on sooo many good hearted ppl are locked away that struggle to protect they family and then they take them away from us to face the real danger on the streets alone.... Its u ppl that believe money authority fame is most important everybody that think they made it to the top eviled they way there cause all of us thats trying to do it the possitive way some how get blocked its sad pray thats all is left to do every prisoner is not guilty...
No one deserve to die in a place we as family think ok strict authority monitoring and weapon free even if he did do a crime some one was expecting him to come home who can we trust its scary I pray we all get a heart and just understand and sometimes the rich need to put his feet in a poor man shoes..... ppl have to go to jail cause they dont have money to pay child support to pay for a ticket and deep down they want to pay them but dont have the money so they thrown in jail the solution for every thing.. its sad on so many levels.
I have a son there and some of these comments are very disturbing just out right rude I pray each night that he's well and protected you people that talk down on these inmates haven't experienced having a loved one caged in a prison so you talk ignorantly about something you have no idea what it feels like having your child in such a place just be careful not to land in prison yourselves or have a loved one to go.
You my dear sound like a very ignorant person, educationally speaking. God help you. Most of our Justice System could be right in there for DUI's (watched a lot of lawyers, police and even judges leave the bar drunk and then drive.) Not everyone in jail is a bad person. Get out of your stupidity bubble and think before you speak. Or maybe you really are just dumb.
You must be a very ignorant person, educationally speaking. I have watched a lot of (judges, lawyers and police officers wasted jump right into the car and drive home or to the next bar. ) DUI's will land you in jail also. Now, if you are part of the "Good ole boy crowd" or no someone, you might be safe. But even some of those make too many mistakes and wind up behind bars on a rare instance. So, you think most of our law enforcement and politicians that pay taxes and "protect us" deserve to die or never come back home. What a truly nieve person you truly are. Not everyone in jail is a thug. Get an education or at least a better one.
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