New York:AUBURN - Authorities said Tuesday that an investigation is underway into the death of a Rochester-area convict who was attacked in a New York state prison July 9.
The Citizen of Auburn reports that the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision reported that 51-year-old Daniel Wingate was pronounced dead last Friday at a hospital July 14.
Wingate was an inmate at the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility in Cayuga County. State prison officials said he was a repeat sex offender.
New York State Police said in a news release that troopers responded to the prison July 9 after an altercation between Wingate and other prisoners.
Cayuga County prosecutors said Wingate was attacked by another inmate and that state police are investigating his death as a homicide.
According to Syracuse.com, the Cayuga County coroner expects to determine the manner and cause of death in about two weeks.
Wingate, who would have turned 52 next month, was scheduled to be released in September, according to a state website about prisoners. He was imprisoned in Auburn in January 2013 after being convicted in Monroe County of first-degree sexual abuse and sentenced to five years in prison, it said. No details were available.
Prior to his most recent sentence, he was convicted of sex abuse and spent time in prison from 1995 to 2008, The Citizen said. According to the New York State Sex Offenders Registry, he was convicted Jan. 17, 1995, of abusing a 7-year-old girl in Monroe County on April 1, 1994. ..Source..
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