By Megan Guza
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Eight incarcerated men are charged with homicide in connection with the killing of another Allegheny County Jail inmate last month, including two who are already awaiting trial in separate homicide cases.
Tyrone Good, 44, died May 13 at UPMC Mercy, about an hour after authorities say he was assaulted in his jail cell.
Those charged, according to Allegheny County Police, are: Kendall McKoy, 24; Justin Allen, 25; Delvonte Woodson, 20; Jerrell Rockymore, 18; Mark Beavers, 27; Tavarius Lee, 20; Shawn Davis, 23; Anthony Schmitt, 24.
Lee is already awaiting trial on homicide and related charges, accused of gunning down 19-year-old Ronald Fuller in McKees Rocks in March 2024.
Rockymore is accused of fatally shooting two 17-year-old boys in Braddock in August 2023: Rimel Williamson and Nazir Parker, both of whom were students at Woodland Hills High School.
Jim Madalinsky, a spokesman for county police, said in a statement early Tuesday evening that surveillance footage, interviews and evidence from the scene led to the identification of the men.
Police said surveillance footage showed six of the men go into Good’s cell just before 12:45 p.m. Two more men followed a few minutes later, authorities said, and they closed the door behind them.
The assault lasted 6½ minutes, police said.
Criminal complaints against the men were not immediately available. All face charges including homicide, conspiracy and tampering with evidence.
A corrections officer was placed on unpaid leave in the aftermath of the incident. An Allegheny County Jail spokesman said Tuesday that the corrections officer has since resigned, although it remained unclear if or how that corrections officer was connected to Good or the May 13 incident.
Good was taken into custody by April 14 , about six weeks after he was charged in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Michelle Sturdivant. Investigators alleged he assaulted Sturdivant inside his West End apartment before driving her across the city and leaving her for dead inside another person’s North Side home.
The Medical Examiner’s Office attributed her death to “multiple blunt force injuries and extensive burns and with [a] significant contributor being multiple drug and ethanol intoxication.”
The ME’s office has not yet released a cause and manner of death for Good. Officials there wrote in the initial notification of his death that he was “stabbed by assailant(s) …”
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