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Inmate charged with murder in stabbing at D.C. jail
A D.C. jail inmate was charged Tuesday with fatally stabbing fellow prisoner last month, police said.
Marquise Jones, 26, was charged with second-degree murder while armed with a knife. He was already in the custody at the city's Central Detention Facility, where the May 12 stabbing took place.
That day, police were called to jail around 2:30 p.m. after Carlos Shelley, 29, suffered stab wounds in what authorities called an 'inmate-on-inmate assault.' Shelley was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators have not said what led to the stabbing.
Shelley was awaiting trial on carjacking charges. In January, he was charged with possession of major contraband in the jail after a corrections officer allegedly found a homemade knife under his cell mattress.
Jones was in jail on charges of possessing a prohibited weapon and a misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property, court record show. Police had accused him of stealing a cellphone from a teenager at a Metro station in August. In February, after Jones pleaded guilty in that case and was sentenced to 360 days in the jail, court records show.
The fatal stabbing was the second in-custody death at the jail this year, the D.C. Department of Corrections said.
Last year, there were nine deaths at the jail, according to the department. A majority of those deaths were determined to be suicides, drug overdoses or heart failure. One man, 69-year-old Charles Clifford Holt Jr., died of blunt force trauma to the head, but the manner of his death has not been determined.
