Inmate Scott Sica #1412673 was found unresponsive in his cell this morning at Scotland Correctional Institution. Prison medical staff and paramedics were unable to revive him and he was later declared dead, the result of an apparent suicide.
The Scotland County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the death.
Sica, 40, was serving a life sentence after pleading guilty in 2014 to the 1996 murder of Jonesville police Sergeant Greg Martin. The shooting death happened during a traffic stop on Interstate 77.