Inmate injured in fight at Jackson County jail dies of his injuries, sheriff says
Update Monday, May 3, 2021: The injured inmate, Donald Ratcliff of Ocean Springs, died of his injuries just before 5 p.m. Monday at USA Medical Center in Mobile. Manslaughter charges are pending against Christopher Gholar.
A fight on Monday in the Jackson County Adult Detention Center sent one man to the hospital in critical condition, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell said in a release on Tuesday.
Ezell said corrections officers responded to the fight in one of the day rooms and found Donald Ratcliff, 47, unconscious.
Ratcliff was treated by medical staff before he was taken to Singing River Hospital.
He is now at the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile.
Ezell says charges are pending against 27-year-old Christopher Bridge Gholar.
The Mississippi Bureau of investigators and investigators in the sheriff’s department are working together on the investigation.
This story was originally published April 27, 2021 at 3:21 PM.
