RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina prison inmate was killed Saturday in a fight with another offender, authorities said.
Officials said Kevin R. Taylor Jr., 23, was hit with a homemade weapon about 1:15 p.m. Saturday at Eastern Correctional Institution. Emergency responders pronounced him dead less than 15 minutes later.
Taylor was housed in the regular population and was serving a 5-year, 5-month sentence for robbery with a dangerous weapon. He entered prison on Jan. 1, 2019 after being convicted in Mecklenburg County.
Authorities said the other offender involved in the prison fight was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
The prison was placed on lock-down.
Taylor’s death comes one week after a convicted murderer was killed in a fight at another Greene County state prison.
Andre A. Young-Johnson, 23, was fatally injured Feb. 21 when he was struck with a homemade weapon at Maury Correctional Institution in Hookerton.
Young-Johnson was serving a 25-year sentence for second degree murder in the 2017 strangulation death of a man in Mecklenburg County. The other offender in that prison fight was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
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