SHAMONI PETERSON

LATEST VICTIM WAS STABBED; BOTH FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.
Killing 2nd in 3 weeks at U.S. prison in Kentucky

Posted on Tue, Nov. 28, 2006
By Lee Mueller
EASTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU

INEZ - Federal authorities are investigating the second killing in less than three weeks at a maximum security prison in Eastern Kentucky.

Prison authorities yesterday confirmed the stabbing death of inmate Shamoni Peterson, 32, on Nov. 13, just 20 days after the U.S. Penitentiary--Big Sandy in Martin County reported the first homicide since it opened in 2003.

"Preliminary information indicates he was the victim of an assault," a Federal Bureau of Prisons news release said yesterday.

Peterson, like the first victim, Calvin Speight, 42, was from Washington, D.C.

Prison officials said Peterson was first sentenced to federal prison on Dec. 11, 2003, on a federal firearms charge and was released on Jan. 11, 2005. He was arrested again in Washington and sentenced on Oct. 22, 2005, to six years and three months for unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

He initially was sent to prison in Atlanta, but was transferred to the Martin County facility on Dec. 14, 2005, records show.

Like Speight, Peterson was transported to Highlands Regional Medical Center near Prestonsburg where he was pronounced dead on arrival, Floyd County Coroner Roger Nelson said.

Nelson said Peterson apparently had been stabbed repeatedly with a sharp instrument and was pronounced dead at 6:40 a.m.

"He bled out, more or less," Nelson said.

Prison spokeswoman Mashelle Arisman said no charges have been filed in either case, but that the FBI is investigating.

Arisman said the Big Sandy prison, which houses 1,600 high-security inmates inside the hilltop facility near the Johnson County line, has been placed on lockdown status during the investigation.

Warden Suzanne Hastings could not be reached for comment, but Felicia Ponce, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons in Washington, said "there is no correlation between the two deaths that have occurred there."

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