The North Carolina Department of Public Safety said Tuesday that a prisoner at the Bertie Correction Institution in Windsor had been murdered by a group of fellow inmates.
Semajs Short, 24, was pronounced dead at around 2:37 p.m. Tuesday after being attacked by a group of other inmates in a housing area of the facility, the NCDPS said in a statement.
“Prisons first responders performed life-saving measures until local paramedics arrived and also worked to resuscitate the offender.”
“Three other offenders were injured during the group assault and were taken to an outside medical facility for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries,” the statement added.
The incident is being investigated by the Windsor Police Department and the State Bureau of Investigation.
Short had pleaded guilty to the slaying of a 2-year-old girl back in 2017. He was 17 years old at the time of the crime.
