Special Agents with the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division are investigating a homicide at the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) Cummins Unit in Gould.
ADC staff discovered inmate Joseph Fairchild, 21, non-responsive during a security check at approximately 2 a.m. on Thursday, September 11. Fairchild was pronounced deceased at the scene. He was serving a sentence for First-Degree Battery out of Pulaski County.
His 25-year-old cellmate has been identified as a suspect in Fairchild’s death.
The deceased will be transported to the Arkansas State Crime Lab, where the manner and cause of death will be determined.
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