Jessup Inmate Faces Charges In Connection To Death Of Cellmate: Maryland State Police

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — A state prison inmate has been indicted by the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Grand Jury in connection to the homicide of a fellow inmate at the Jessup Correctional Institute in Jessup earlier this year.

Nicholas Joseph Delfosse, 27, an inmate serving time for burglary, was pronounced dead at the scene emergency medical service personnel on May 27. Investigators told State Police Delfosse was found in his cell with multiple injuries shortly before 4:30 p.m. on May 27.

Crime scene technicians from the Maryland State Police Forensic Sciences Division responded to the scene and processed the cell for evidence. Delfosse and Myers were cellmates when the incident occurred, according to Maryland State Police.

An autopsy conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore ruled that Delfosse had been stabbed to death.

The suspect, Daniel Myers, 26, has been charged with first-degree murder and related charges. He is in custody at the North Branch Correctional Institute in Cumberland, Maryland pending his trial.