A 36-year-old inmate who was assaulted at Stony Mountain Institution on New Year’s Day has died, and his death is being treated as a homicide, police say.
The RCMP’s major crimes unit continues to investigate the incident, in which the man was found unresponsive in his cell just after 2 a.m. on Jan. 1, and taken to hospital in critical condition.
He died of his injuries Monday.
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No arrests have been made yet, in what is the second death at the facility so far in 2022.
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