A Louisiana inmate serving a life sentence for killing two people in 2017 had committed suicide in his new cell Wednesday.
Authorities said that Kenneth Gleason hung himself at around midnight with a bedsheet at his solitary cell at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola where he was transferred Monday.
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The inmate took advantage of being alone in the cell following quarantine requirements for incoming prisoners.
Last April, Gleason was convicted of the 2017 killings of Donald Smart and Bruce Coefield. Prosecutors said that he went “hunting Black men” during a five-day rampage.
He was sentenced to life behind bars and spared capital punishment at the request of Smart’s family.
