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A federal inmate has been charged in the fatal stabbing of another prisoner at the Terre Haute Federal Prison Complex in April 2023.
A grand jury indicted 42-year-old Otha Don Watkins III of Illinois with possessing contraband in prison and involuntary manslaughter in the death of Carlos Shelton.
According to court documents, Watkins stabbed Shelton with an improvised knife, or shank, during a fight on April 14, 2023.
Watkins reportedly made the shank, which is illegal in prison, with a sharpened piece of metal on one end and wrapped in white cloth on the other end. Shelton eventually died from his injuries.
Watkins is currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
If convicted of the crime, Watkins could spend an additional eight years in federal prison on top of the the federal sentence he’s currently serving. In 2018, Watkins was sentenced to 23 years in prison for assisting in the 2014 attempted armed robbery of the First National Bank in Cairo, Illinois.
That 23-year sentence is to be served consecutively with a 12-year sentence for the armed robbery of a McDonald’s in Missouri in October 2014.
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