A pointless fight between two inmates ended in a tragedy at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Cellmates Telea Lui, 25, and Leon Casiquito, 41, clashed inside their cell late Monday following persistent harassment from Casiquito.
The older inmate had on Sunday hit Lui’s legs “in a nagging manner” and wanted to do it again after returning from his break on Monday when a furious Lui confronted him.
Lui beat Casiquito’s head and kept punching him until corrections guards arrived to separate them. Lui was removed to another cell while medics pronounced his cellmate dead at the scene.
Lui was serving time for aggravated battery on a household member with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment.
The victim was jailed for 10 months on robbery charges.
