ERIE, Pa. (WJAC) — A Johnstown man who was serving a life sentence at SCI Albion in Erie County for killing two Blair County Residents in 2009 committed suicide, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
Corrections officers found 39-year-old Nicholas Horner unresponsive in his jail cell just before 2 a.m. Saturday while they were conducting routine checks of all the cell blocks, according to a release from the DOC.
Horner was taken to the infirmary where medical personnel tried to revive him. Authorities say he was pronounced dead just after 2:30 a.m.
Authorities say Horner was found guilty of killing two people and wounding another in a 2009 shooting in Altoona and was sentenced to life in prison.
He had been at SCI Albion since June 2015.
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