The St. Tammany District Attorney announced that an inmate convicted of manslaughter will now serve life in prison after he threw feces at correctional officers.
According to District Attorney Colin Sims, Judge William H. Burris sentenced Tomarcus Porter, 37, of New Orleans, to life in prison after he was found guilty of battery on a correctional officer.
Porter was serving 20 years in prison on eight sentences in five separate cases in New Orleans at the time of his battery trial on June 10.
According to testimony from the trial, a correctional officer at the B.B. “Sixty” Rayburn Correctional Center in Angie was making security rounds when he gave an instruction to Porter, who was an inmate at the facility.
Sims said Porter ignored the instruction and instead reached into his toilet and grabbed a handful of human feces.
According to Sim, Porter threw the feces on the officer, hitting him in the face, arms and legs. A second officer was also hit in the head and shoulder.
Porter was jailed on charges of manslaughter, aggravated second-degree battery, four counts of aggravated battery and two counts of introduction of contraband into a penal institution.
Porter’s manslaughter conviction in New Orleans was originally indicted as a second-degree murder. The victim in that case was visiting New Orleans from Germany when she was reported missing. Her badly decomposed body was eventually found in Armstrong Park. Her throat had been slashed, according to Sims.
Sims said Porter also had other previous convictions, including aggravated sexual battery, second-degree battery, three counts of theft, illegal carrying of weapons, failure to register as a convicted sex offender, aggravated assault, three counts of criminal damage to property, and six counts of introduction of contraband into a penal institution.
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