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An inmate from Newport News serving a sentence from a 2006 shootout near Fort Eustis was charged with killing his cellmate last summer at the Red Onion State Prison in western Virginia.

The Virginia Department of Corrections says an inmate at Red Onion State Prison has been charged in connection to the 2023 death of another inmate at the facility.

A Newport News man in prison on aggravated malicious wounding charges since 2012 has been charged with the death of his cellmate at Red Onion State Prison.

An inmate at Red Onion State Prison has been charged in the death of another inmate, according to the Virginia Department of Corrections.

Julian Leon Mitchell has been charged with aggravated murder in the August 2023 death of his cellmate, Jowell Legendre, according to court records.

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The offences put him in breach of numerous previously imposed suspended sentences