MUNISING, MI-- Officials have not yet released the name of the suspect accused of killing an inmate at the Alger Correctional Facility Thursday.
A spokesman with the Department of Corrections says Rodriguez Montez Burks, 23, was found dead in his cell around 2 p.m. It’s not known how Burks was killed, but officials are treating it as a homicide. They say he died at the hands of his cellmate.
The suspect is being held in isolation until his arraignment.
Burks was serving time for third-degree fleeing and eluding a police officer and receiving and concealing stolen property from a motor vehicle. The offenses happened in Livingston County.
