Altercation Between Inmates Leaves One Dead

The Alabama Department of Corrections is investigating a fatal stabbing of an inmate that occurred at the Elmore Correctional Facility on Tuesday.  The stabbing happened at approximately 4:30 p.m. during an altercation between two inmates.

Prison officials report that Davieon Cotez Williams, 24, received multiple stabbed wounds in the altercation. Responding officers transported Williams to the facility’s infirmary and was pronounced deceased by a prison doctor at 4:56 p.m.

Inmate Jonathan Gladney, 41, was detained as a suspect in the stabbing. Gladney is serving a life sentence on a 2006 manslaughter conviction in Barbour County.  Williams was serving a 5-year sentence for second-degree rape in Chambers County.

The facility is on lock down until the investigation is complete.

Elmore Correctional Facility is a medium custody level prison housing 1,175 inmates.