DeKalb Jail Inmate Killed by Cellmate, Deputies Say

Credit: DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office

A DeKalb County jail inmate died over the weekend after getting in an altercation with his cellmate, sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday.

Donte Lamar Wyatt, 23, is accused of killing Jah’Corey D. Tyson on Saturday morning between 5:20 and 6 a.m., documents obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution show. The documents claim that Wyatt used a cutting tool to fatally wound Tyson, who died after being rushed to the DeKalb Medical Center.

Wyatt is in jail because of a crime spree which allegedly saw him stab LGBT activist Catherine Han Montoya to death inside her home on Shadowridge Drive in DeKalb County on April 13. Police believe Wyatt first stabbed his estranged wife at a Stockbridge Waffle house, then fled to DeKalb County, broke into Montoya’s home, and stabbed her to death.

Police were watching the home when Wyatt allegedly fled in a stolen car, then barricaded himself inside a home on Glynn Drive. He only surrendered after a SWAT team fired tear gas into the home.

Tyson had been arrested on May 28 and charged with battery-family violence, false imprisonment, and rape, DeKalb County jail records show. He was also charged with a probation violation on June 5.

Wyatt has been charged with the murders of Tyson and Montoya, and also faces charges of theft by taking and burglary for the April 13 crime spree, jail records show.