An Augusta man awaiting trial for a 2020 murder was stabbed multiple times Wednesday by cellmates in the same dorm, authorities said.
The injuries to 20-year-old Marques Warney come nearly a year after he allegedly did the same thing to another cellmate at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center.
Shortly before dinner time Wednesday, Warney was stabbed in his leg and neck, causing his injuries that sent him to the hospital. An investigation led to charges against De’Tallion Williams, Dashawn Berrien and Arquette Jones for aggravated assault and weapons offenses, according to a sheriff’s press release. Warney was listed in stable condition Thursday.
Warney has been jailed since July 2020 on murder and weapons charges. He was one of three suspects in the July 14, 2020, shooting death of 23-year-old Marquan Patten on C Street in Olmstead Holmes. The death was allegedly the result of a gun deal gone bad.
Warney’s time in jail has been rough as he has gone from a teenager to a young man. In July 2020, he got into a fight with 19-year-old Thaddeus Leverett, who was five inches shorter than him and 35 pounds lighter.
Suddenly, Warney punched the smaller teen in the face, got the victim on the ground and stabbed him multiple times in the leg, neck and back, according to a sheriff’s report. Leverett required multiple stitches at Piedmont Hospital, and Warney was charged with aggravated assault in the attack.
Warney saw additional charges just before Christmas last year when jailers allegedly found him with contraband.
This week’s stabbing comes a week and a half after seven inmates were wounded with shanks in a bloody fight that led to new charges against nine men, authorities said.
Meanwhile, Arquette Jones, one of the men who allegedly stabbed Warney this week, is a suspect in an Augusta double murder from 2020. He is one of two men who allegedly committed the brazen killings Sept. 19 of two local teens inside apartments on Cascade Drive.
