Hays State Prison
Nathaniel Reynolds
Derick Stubbs sent this photo he took of himself to his girlfriend before he was killed at Hays State Prison in Trion, Ga.
Damion MacClain was killed in Hays State Prison in Trion, Ga.The third inmate killed at Hays State Prison in a month’s time was ambushed in the prison’s courtyard by at least two other inmates, sources confirmed.
State investigators said 30-year-old Nathaniel Reynolds was killed as he was being escorted to another prison building. Two inmates have been charged in connection with Reynolds’ death.
On Tuesday, Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents charged Ricardo Beltran-Gonzales and Leonardo Rodriques with murder, department spokesman John Bankhead said. Beltran-Gonzales is serving a 30-year sentence for trafficking cocaine, while Rodriques is serving a 10-year term for involuntary manslaughter.
Jerry Scott, GBI special agent in charge, declined to say where Reynolds, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence, was coming from when he was attacked. But multiple sources inside the prison say Reynolds was ambushed as he was leaving the prison’s holding cell and heading back to his dorm. No one should have known where he was, the sources said.
“Those inmates were outside the door,” said a prison guard, who asked to be anonymous for fear of retaliation. “They stabbed [Reynolds] before he got his foot in his dorm.”