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An inmate was fatally assaulted at Fountain Correctional Facility just outside Atmore on June 15, according to the Alabama Department of Corrections.

Public Information Officer Bob Horton said prison officials responded to the assault at approximately 5:15 p.m., where “correctional officers found Jeremy Reshad Bailey, 29, inside a facility housing area suffering from a stab wound.”
“Bailey was taken to an area hospital but later succumbed to his injury,” Horton said in a release.

Horton said officials identified 31-year-old Jarvis Terrell Taylor as a suspect in the alleged stabbing.

Horton said Taylor is serving a 30-year sentence on a 2007 robbery I conviction in Montgomery County is facing a murder charge.

“Bailey was serving a seven-year sentence on a 2017 distribution of a controlled substance conviction in Jefferson County,” Horton said.

ADOC is investigating the circumstances, both leading up to and surrounding the incident, Horton said.