Officials still mum on T-Dog’s death

Police and prison officials remain tight-lipped about Wednesday’s fatal shooting of notorious inmate Mark “T-Dog” Stuart at Hattieville prison. According to a police press release, a post-mortem conducted yesterday concluded that Stuart died of internal bleeding, the result of liver damage caused by multiple gunshot wounds. Sources close to the case tell News 5 that there were so many bullet holes in the body, including some caused by ricochets, that it may never be known exactly how many shots hit him. For the record, it appears that several slugs entered his upper thigh, severing a vital artery and that wound on its own could have resulted in death. His chest also took two bullets, while the head received four wounds, three of which were allegedly grazes. The police are still conducting an investigation, but it appears that Stuart, the prison’s most vicious and feared convict, attacked a prison officer with a knife. The guard shot him in the leg, but when Stuart kept advancing, the other guards apparently became agitated, and with the situation rapidly deteriorating, just emptied their nine millimetre clips into the inmate’s body. While T-Dog’s list of mourners will be short, it is likely that officials of the Kolbe Foundation, which operates Hattieville prison, will have to find more innovative ways to separate the small population of irredeemably violent criminals from the vast majority of inmates who are capable of at least some degree of rehabilitation.