A man convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole told an officer he had to kill his cellmate, who was found with a strip of bed sheet tightly wrapped around his neck in a Fulton County Jail cell in 2014.
The office of Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard, Jr. announced the decision on Bobby Wynn Friday in a news release.
Wynn was convicted after he told an officer investigating the incident, “I had to do it … I had to kill him,” according to the news release.
Wynn, 66 at the time, was initially charged July 31, 2014 of battery and robbery, according to online records.
He was later charged with murder in the death of Demontae Ware Sept. 7, 2014.
Police homicide units were called to the jail just after 6 a.m. “regarding a death at the jail,” according to a statement.
The officer found Ware with his hands bound behind his back with a bed sheet and a strip of bed sheet tightly tied around his neck.
He was transported to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“While medical examiners found defense wounds on Ware’s body, they did not find defensive wounds on Wynn, undermining Wynn’s self-defense claim,” Howard said in the news release.
Wynn has a history of altercations with cellmates and had been transferred from three different cells. One day prior to the murder, Wynn had been moved to Ware’s cell because of an altercation with his prior cellmate, Howard added.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford presided over the case prosecuted by Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney Pat Dutcher, Assistant District Attorney Nicole Finnie and Investigator Fred Glenn of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Investigations Unit. Detective Scott DeMeester of the Atlanta Police Department led the initial investigation.
Wynn was convicted of murder and aggravated assault.
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