BATON ROUGE — Sheriff’s officials say an inmate who entered the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison this month on a probation revocation was dead less than a week later.
Tre’deon Hilliard, 21, was booked March 7 after the 19th Judicial Court revoked his probation for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and resisting an officer with force. He had initially been arrested last August. He also had been accused previously of domestic violence-related charges.
The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that last Thursday, five days after being booked, Hilliard was found unresponsive during a jail roll call. Jail staff tried to revive him but he was pronounced dead at the jail…