POLKTON
Oct 24, 2016
Inmate Christopher Blackett #1515843 was found unresponsive in his cell at Lanesboro Correctional Institution Sunday afternoon, after an apparent suicide. Efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful and he was pronounced dead.
Blackett, 25, was serving more than 26 years in prison after convictions for second degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Blackett was a Fort Bragg solider from California who was convicted in August 2016 for the 2011 death of his 17-year-old neighbor, Vincent Carlisle II of Spring Lake.
The Polkton Police Department is investigating Blackett's death.