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Clearfield County District Attorney Ryan Sayers said Garrick Bloom was being held at SCI Houtzdale for child molestation charges.
According to online court documents, Bloom was facing over 800 counts in relation to child rape incidents dating back from 2007 to 2012.
Jacob Mitchell was serving a sentence for a felony theft charge.
On August 29th of last year, Sayers said Bloom and Mitchell were drinking alcohol and later that night, Bloom was found dead in his jail cell.
“They were locked in at the end of the day and then after final count. During the night, the defendant Mitchell proceeded to beat up and strangle the victim,” Ryan Sayers, Clearfield County District Attorney.
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HOUTZDALE A state prison inmate will stand trial for killing his cellmate last summer.
In October, state police charged Jacob Michael Mitchell, 33, with criminal homicide, aggravated assault, assault by prisoner, strangulation, simple assault and recklessly endangering another person in connection with the death of Garrick Bloom at the State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale.
Bloom, 48, who had been convicted of multiple child rape charges, was found unresponsive in his cell at 11:03 p.m. on Aug. 29. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.
A trooper described Bloom as having bruises all over his face and markings on his neck that indicated he had been choked by some sort of string.