Indiana inmate, 38, serving 130-year sentence for a 2002 triple murder 'stabs one corrections officer to death and seriously injures another'
An Indiana inmate convicted of a 2002 triple murder has been accused of fatally stabbing one corrections officer and gravely injuring another at the maximum-security Indiana State Prison where he's serving a 130-year sentence.
The wounded Indiana State Prison officers were transported Sunday to St Anthony's Hospital in Michigan City, where Lt Gene Lasco was pronounced dead and his colleague was listed in serious condition, Indiana State Police said.
Inmate Tymetri Campbell, 38, is suspected of attacking the officers in a common area at the Michigan City prison.
Convicted killer Tymetri Campbell, 38 (left), is accused of stabbing to death Indiana corrections Lt Gene Lasco (right) and injuring another guard
An entrance to the maximum-security Indiana State Prison in Michigan City where the deadly attack took place on Sunday
State Police Sgt. Ted Bohner said Monday said he did not know what type of weapon was used in the stabbing and that no additional details, including a possible motive, would be immediately released on the attack, which state police are still investigating.
The Indiana Department of Correction posted a statement on Facebook saying that, 'Our thoughts and prayers are with our staff and their families.'
Lt Lasco, 57, from LaPorte, Michigan, was said to be married with children and grandchildren.
A petition has been launched on Change.org, calling on Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita to seek the death penalty against Campbell's for Lasco's death.
'Lt. Gene Lasco was loved by everyone he worked with, and well respected by the offenders behind the wall of Indiana State Prison,' the description of the petition reads.
Campbell was sentenced in 2004 after pleading guilty to the killings of Keith Resnover, 45, his brother Karl Resnover, 46, and another man, 26-year-old Anthony P. Johnson, in September 2002.
Aged only 19 at the time of the killings, he was tracked down a month later by US Marshals in Peoria, Illinois, according to WISH-TV.
In a 2007 appeal, Campbell argued that the court did not take into account his remorse, and his drug and alcohol addiction when deciding his punishment.
Campbell apologized for 'being there' at the time of the deaths but claimed he did not kill anyone.
'I’m going to stay a whole lot of time in jail to think about it, so I hope that’s enough for y’all. I’m sorry,' he said at the time.
A petition has been launched calling in Indiana's attorney general to seek the death penalty against Campbell for Lasco's death
But the appeals court upheld his sentence, saying he had failed to 'acknowledge responsibility' and that his substance abuse problems did not warrant a reduction.
The Indiana department of corrections gives Campbell's earliest possible release date as February 5, 2066, by which time he would be 83 years old.
The prison in Michigan City is a maximum security prison with about 2,300 inmates that is home to Indiana's death row. It was also the scene of a famous historical escape in 1933 when eight associates of notorious bank robber John Dillinger slipped out of the jailhouse.
Dillinger himself had earlier served a lengthy sentence in the prison before being paroled in 1933, only to immediately rob another bank in Ohio and go back to jail.
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