RALEIGH, N.C. — An inmate at a North Carolina prison has been killed in an attack by other prisoners, authorities said.
The News & Observer reports that the Central Prison in Raleigh was placed on lockdown on Friday while police investigated the death of the inmate, 35-year-old Ronald S. Rhodes.
Rhodes died about an hour after other inmates assaulted him with a weapon in the prison's recreation yard, the state Department of Public Safety said in a news release.
Rhodes was being held at the prison as a pretrial detainee at the request of Wake County authorities. The newspaper reported that charges filed against Rhodes in Wake County included simple assault and felony solicitation to commit human trafficking.
