Man Convicted Of Killing Fulton Jail Inmate

ATLANTA, GA -- A man on trial for killing his cellmate at the Fulton County Jail has been convicted in connection to the case.

A jury has found Bobby Wynn guilty on murder, felony murder and aggravated assault charges in the death of Demontae Ware, the Fulton County District Attorney's Office said Friday.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge T. Jackson Bedford sentenced Wynn to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A detention officer at the jail found Ware dead in his cell around 3 a.m. Sept. 7, 2014. When the officer approached the cell, Wynn, Ware's cellmate at the time, told the officer, "I had to do it . . . I had to kill him," the district attorney's office said.

At that point, the officer saw Ware lying in the background with his hands bound behind his back by a bed sheet and a strip of bed sheet tightly bound around Ware’s neck.

Ware was transported to Grady Hospital where he was pronounced dead. While medical examiners found defense wounds on Ware’s body, they did not find defensive wounds on Wynn, undermining Wynn’s self-defense claim.

Wynn was in Fulton County Jail awaiting trial on a robbery by force charge. Wynn had a history of altercations with cellmates, and had been transferred from three different cells, the district attorney office contends.

One day prior to the murder, Wynn had been moved to Ware’s cell because of an altercation with his prior cellmate.

The case was prosecuted by Chief Senior Assistant District Attorney Pat Dutcher with assistance from Assistant District Attorney Nicole Finnie and Investigator Fred Glenn of the Fulton County District Attorney’s Investigations Unit. Detective Scott Demeester of the Atlanta Police Department led the initial investigation.

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