Rankin-Madison District Attorney Michael Guest issued the following press release:
Itawamba
County Man Receives a LifeSentence
in the Killing of a Fellow Inmate
Madison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney
Michael Guest announced today that Tyler James Smith pled guilty to first
degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison for the killing of Clifton
Majors.
On September 1, 2013, Smith and
Majors were both incarcerated in the Mississippi Department of Corrections and
were being housed at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility located in Rankin
County. Smith was incarcerated on two
counts of grand larceny from Itawamba County and was serving a two year
sentence. Majors was incarcerated on burglary
and robbery convictions. Smith was a
member of the Simon City Royals prison/street gang.
On the night of the first, Smith was
in the common area of the cell block in which he and Majors were housed. Smith was able to gain access to Majors’ cell. Once inside the cell Smith struck, stomped,
choked and beat Majors until he stopped breathing. After killing Majors, Smith then left the
cell and attempted to attack two others inmates but was unable carry out the
assaults because he was not able to make entry to their cells.
Correctional officers were alerted
of the actions of Smith and they locked down the area and placed Smith in an isolated
holding area. Investigators with the
Department of Corrections were contacted and began to investigate the death of
Majors. Investigators collected Smith’s
clothing which contained the blood of the victim. Investigators also interviewed Smith and
obtained a written statement where he admitted to killing Majors.
Guest stated, “Smith is a dangerous
individual who brutally took the life of another and has shown no remorse for
his actions. Smith will now return to
prison where he will spend the rest of his life.”
Guest concluded, “Smith is a
habitual offender and gang member who must not be allowed to re-enter
society. We hope that this conviction
and sentence will protect others from the violent actions of Smith.”
District
Attorney Michael Guest was sworn into office in January 2008 and represents the
Twentieth Judicial District, Madison and Rankin Counties. For more information regarding the District
Attorney’s office, please visit www.daguest.com
Defendant:
Name: Tyler James Smith
Address: Mississippi
Department of Corrections
Date of Birth: August 31, 1993
9 comments:
To bad he didn't get the death penalty.
12:20-Amen. and now we as taxpayers have to pay for the thug to eat, drink, and sleep until the day this piece of crap dies. hopefully someone will 'shank' him in his cell...
Sounds like a planned hit to me. Were the guards also a party to this murder?
How about water, baloney sandwiches, and a leg shackle connected to a tent? Sheriff Arpaio in AZ has the right idea about how to deal with vermin we are forced to support until they die.
Apparently, we as tax payers have to pay DOC officers that are complicit in these brutal killings and other things. I had one customer that was a good citizen that worked for the DOC as a guard in the tower. Acording to him, He saw a corrections officer and a female inmate having sexual relations from the tower. When he reported this act, he was fired.
If his story is indeed true, then the moral/ lesson is to STFU and let corruption prevail.
Sure, maybe both of them wanted to have some hanky panky, but if someone is fired for reporting that, I can only try to imagine what goes unreported so that people may 'earn the right' to keep their jobs.
You can try to sink the truth, but it always has a way of floating to the top of the lake.
OR....maybe Smith going to "the big house" can kill some of the other vermin that are being housed at the taxpayer's expense that are there for killing innocent people.
And by the way, I didn't realize that the "Simon City Royals" were such bad folks. I think they were selling cookies or brownies at a fundraiser a few weeks ago.
b) Murder which is perpetrated by a person who is under sentence of life imprisonment is capital.
Would like to know if death penalty was involved as this would be a deterrent perhaps to this type of prison violence. He gets to mock the survivors which made me sick
Jerry Mitchell reported this criminal was locked up for stealing when he committed murder. I didn't know stealing carried life.
First of all, all of you are commenting on a story that is inaccurate. Maybe the person that wrote this should have double checked their facts. And the gang influenced him, the guards encouraged and helped him commit the crime. If you are in prison and a gang is telling u that u need to do something, and the guards are in on it too, you do it. He did not receive a fair trial, evidence was missing, and none of you know anything. I bet none of you have a single loved one incarcerated, or have ever had to live that life. You all make me disgusted, I'll pray for each and every one of you, you need it.
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