Jackson, Tenn. – The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has charged a Gibson County Jail inmate with the beating death of another inmate earlier this month.
Antron Demon Tyus, 21, of Humboldt was charged with reckless homicide on April 22, 2013. On April 12, 2013, Tyus and Ivory Lynn Pewitte, 19, were involved in a fight in a cell at the Gibson County Correctional Complex. Pewitte received a head injury and was taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis and declared brain dead on Sunday, April 14, 2013. The 28th Judicial District Attorney General requested TBI to investigate the incident. Tyus was previously being held in jail on charges of aggravated assault, theft under $500 and violation of probation and has remained in jail since the fight.
Tyus is now being held in the Gibson County Jail on $80,000 bond.
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