A 40-year-old White inmate named Joshua Scolman in a Wisconsin prison is set to face trial in February for the October 2022 homicide of a Black inmate, Timothy Nabors.
Reports and court records indicate that Scolman, who was under investigation for alleged "extremely concerning racist activity," was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide.
The incident occurred at the Green Bay Correctional Facility, where Scolman allegedly stabbed Nabors to death with a homemade knife, featuring a swastika carved into the blade, during an altercation on October 21, 2022.
Authorities revealed that Nabors, 25, had intervened to break up an attack on another inmate by Scolman. The stabbing resulted in Nabors sustaining fatal injuries, including a pierced heart.
The investigation report by the Brown County Sheriff's Office indicated that Scolman had shown interest in joining a White supremacist gang with a disturbing prerequisite: "to kill a Black male." However, despite the alleged racist motives, Scolman was not charged with a hate crime, which typically carries a harsher sentence upon conviction.
Originally scheduled for December, Scolman's trial was postponed after a judge approved a competency evaluation. Notably, Scolman has a history of violence, as court records and news reports reveal.
His past convictions include pleading no contest to three counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and other charges related to a 2007 vehicle crash that killed three people. Additionally, he pleaded guilty in 2017 to battery by a prisoner for a 2016 attack on a correctional officer.
At the time of his death, Nabors was serving a sentence for the 2020 conviction of sexual assault of a minor. Scolman's lawyer has not provided further comments in response to requests for information.
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