The first inkling that her son was in serious trouble came from the Peru police scanner at 7:13 a.m. Sunday, August 30, about two days after he’d told her he was having difficulty breathing. The Pipe Creek Township Volunteer Fire Department reported a “44 year old male unconscious/not breathing” transported from the Miami Correctional Facility. “I thought well, my son’s 44,” Gardner said. She waited until Monday to call Miami Correctional Facility. A nurse told her that

Arthur Lee Booker was shocked when his brother’s body was released from the Saguaro Forensic facility in Fishers. It was no shock that Shawn Booker’s death at the prison on April 4, inside cell 115, was ruled a homicide. Social media blew up when inmates talked to loved ones on the outside, detailing the stabbing death of Booker, basically held captive inside his cell while another inmate, known to be extremely violent, stabbed him more than 30 times, according to what