Marcus Donald News Today

Coats some still carrying umbrellas as they walk over the Schuylkill River in University City tonight. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Going to be chilly, its going to be windy lets head on over to chief meteorologist Scott Williams track wagon you need to know to walk out that door. Were locking at blustery conditions. Temperatures by tomorrow morning 30s and 40s feels like temperatures around freezing look at the current winds right now. In pottstown gusting to 41 miles an hour. 46...

Burlington county around delran some trees and wires down on haines mill road. Well continue to follow that. But otherwise, look at midnight. Winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour so it will stay pretty blustery overnight. Tomorrow morning, 7 00 a. M. Winds gusting over 30 Miles Per Hour for much of the area but during the day the winds will start to diminish. A live look right now look at that camera at the Philadelphia International airport. It is gusty. 56 degrees is the current temperature bu...

As the push for a new Shelby County jail continues, an upcoming trial could shed light on some of the staffing problems inside the current jail.

The Shelby County jail has grown more deadly than the infamous Rikers Island, and its been slow to address widespread problems.

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While a man was waiting to be released from the Shelby County Jail at 201 Poplar, he was strangled to death by another inmate. A year later, that inmate pled guilty to the murder which led to a $75 million lawsuit against the Shelby County Sheriffs Office.

Stephen Robinson was already in jail on a first-degree murder charge.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man pled guilty Tuesday to the death of Marcus Donald, an inmate who was killed in his cell at the Shelby County Jail last year. Donald’s cellmate, Stephen Robinson, is accused of strangling him to death. “Stephen grabbed him in a chokehold and did not let go,” said a State of […]

A lawsuit claims Shelby County deputy jailers did nothing despite threats from the man’s cellmate that he would kill him.

Marcus Donald was strangled in a jail cell by another inmate in 2022. He had been eligible for release from jail for about 12 hours when he died.