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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, January 19, 1992                   TAG: 9201190110
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: E2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LORTON                                LENGTH: Short

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INMATE STABBED TO DEATH

One inmate was killed and another injured when they were attacked with homemade knives at the Youth Center at the D.C. Correctional Complex, a corrections spokeswoman said Saturday.

Johnny Tart, 23, of Gaithersburg, Md., was found dead outside a prison dormitory late Friday after a guard saw one inmate being chased by another, corrections spokeswoman Pat Wheeler said.

Another inmate, Timothy Stokes, 21, was treated at a prison infirmary for superficial back wounds, Wheeler said. No address was available for Stokes.

Four suspects were being held Saturday in the Youth Center's maximum security unit, Wheeler said. Three are suspected of being directly involved in the stabbing and the other is a suspected accomplice, she said.

Wheeler said all of those involved were in the Youth Center's Dorm 4.

Tart had served 2 1/2 years of a five-year, three-month sentence on cocaine and bail-violation convictions. Stokes has served six of 18 months for unauthorized use of a vehicle.

Wheeler says four homemade weapons were found in the area.

The Youth Center, which is the only part of the Lorton facility in Fairfax County, is for people 18 to 22 years old convicted under the District's Youth Rehabilitation Act.

Keywords:
FATALITY

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