A federal inmate formerly held in Pennsylvania’s Allenwood Federal
Correctional Complex pleaded guilty today in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
before U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane to first-degree murder for
stabbing and kicking a fellow inmate to death.
Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice
Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District
of Pennsylvania Peter J. Smith announced the plea, entered today by
Shawn Cooya, 33, formerly of White River, Arizona.
According to documents filed in this case and Cooya’s admissions in
court, in September 2005, Cooya, allegedly along with co-defendant Ritz
Williams—another inmate at Allenwood in White Deer, Pennsylvania—aided
each other in the premeditated murder of inmate Alvin Allery by
repeatedly stabbing him with a homemade knife and repeatedly kicking him
in the head and torso.
Cooya and Williams were indicted by a federal grand jury in
Williamsport in February 2008 and a superseding indictment was returned
in July 2009.
As a result of his plea, Cooya faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Sentencing has been scheduled for March 18, 2013.
A trial date for Williams has been scheduled for April 15, 2013. He is considered innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The case was investigated by the FBI’s Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Resident Agency and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The case is being
prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Wayne Samuelson and Michelle
Olshefski of the Middle District of Pennsylvania and Michael Warbel of
the Criminal Division’s Capital Case Unit.
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