FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va. — A former Berkeley County resident has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder.
Photo: Fayette County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney
55-year-old Charles Redman, who is a Mount Olive Correctional Complex inmate, was sentenced by Circuit Judge Thomas H. Ewing on Monday in connection to the November 2020 murder of another Mount Olive inmate.
Redman was serving a 15-year-to-life sentence in relation to a repeat offender conviction from Berkeley County.
Video surveillance from the facility showed that Redman and the victim were seated at a card table when the victim walked around the table and sat beside Redman. Redman attempted to punch the victim while both were seated, and soon after, the victim walked to a hallway a floor up in the facility.
Redman followed the victim to which he then approached and stabbed him multiple times. Surveillance also shows that the victim at no point was the aggressor.
The weapon Redman used appeared to be made out of metal and measured at eight inches long.
Redman confessed to the killing during a recorded phone call to a relative.
Judge Ewing ordered that the most recent 40-year sentence be served consecutively to the prison term currently being served by Redman.
This story was originally published in wvmetronews.com
