BARTOW, Fla. – A Florida jail inmate was beaten to death over a food debt by two other inmates, officials said.
Shawn Holliday Jr., 30, suffered severe trauma to his head during a fight Tuesday at the Polk County jail and died Wednesday at a Lakeland hospital, the sheriff's office said.
Brett Crosby, 20, and Christopher Jackson, 41, were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, The Ledger reported. Two detention deputies said they saw all three inmates fighting on a second-story walkway of a maximum security dorm for violent inmates.
As they ran to break up the fight, they said Crosby was stomping on Holliday’s head. Inmates told detectives that the fight was about Holliday owing food to Crosby.