Inside a locked cell at the federal prison in Fairton, a convicted sex trafficker spent March 4, 2025, attempting to kill his roommate—and when choking the man unconscious failed, he turned to an ordinary pencil, according to federal court records.
William Vontrail Johnson, 39, of Oklahoma City, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Pascal in Camden federal court on Thursday to face a single count of murder.
The violence unfolded at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland County, where guards discovered Johnson’s cellmate sprawled on the concrete floor in a pool of blood. The man was breathless, had no pulse, and showed severe trauma across his upper body. Officers performed CPR until paramedics rushed him to a regional hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead the next day…