MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — A prison worker is dead and another injured at the State Prison in Michigan City.
Indiana State Police say the two correction officers were attacked in the afternoon Sunday in a prison common area, by Tymetri Campbell, 38, of Indianapolis. He is in prison on several charges including murder. He killed three people in 2002.
The officers were taken to St. Anthony’s Hospital afterward where one of them died and the other is still recovering.
Campbell is serving a sentence of 130 years for the 2002 murders in which he was found guilty by a jury of shooting and killing two people and stabbing another to death. At the sentencing hearing, Campbell apologized for “being there” at the time of the murders but said he “didn’t actually kill anybody.”
An appeal of the sentence did not go anywhere and his sentence was affirmed in 2007.
The state prison, where he is being held, houses around 2,300 inmates and also houses Indiana’s death row inmates.
