Inmate who died at Angola Tuesday was serving life for Youngsville murder

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — The inmate who died at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Tuesday was serving a life sentence for a murder in Youngsville in 1998.

Reginald Basile, 46, of Lake Charles, died at Angola Tuesday. The cause of death is undetermined pending results of an autopsy.

Basile pleaded guilty in 2002 of first-degree murder in the death of 52-year-old Ronald Shaw…

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