WINNIPEG – A 21-year-old man has been arrested in the homicide of an inmate at Stony Mountain Institution in Manitoba on Monday, police said Wednesday morning.
Clayton Thomas Korski, 33, was found dead in a common area of the federal prison Monday. He had been serving a sentence for first-degree murder since 2007.
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Stonewall RCMP were called to the prison at about 7:30 p.m. Monday and said charges against the 21-year-old are anticipated but haven’t yet been laid. Police are still investigating with help from Correctional Services Canada.
Korski was serving a life sentence for the drug-related slaying of 20-year-old Wilson Martinez, who was shot dead on Sept. 16, 2004, in the Heritage School playground at Heritage Boulevard and Carriage Road in Winnipeg.
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