GREEN BAY (WTAQ – WLUK) – An inmate at the Green Bay Correctional Institution was charged Friday with fatally stabbing another inmate – who apparently was not the intended victim.
Joshua Scolman, 39, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide and attempted homicide for the Oct. 21 incident at the Allouez prison. No initial court date has been scheduled.
According to the criminal complaint, prison staff responded to a fight about 6:30 a.m. Two inmates were injured, and one died from a stab wound to the heart. Police recovered “a large homemade knife that appeared to be made out of metal and had a handle wrapped in linen.”
The man killed is only identified by the initials “TTN” in the criminal complaint, however officials have previously identified the victim as 25-year-old Timothy Nabors.
Nabors may not have been the target of Scolman. After stabbing Nabors, Scolman then chased after another inmate, identified as “LLW,” the complaint says.
“Based on the video, it appeared to Sgt. Wilson that LLW and Scolman had some sort of verbal interaction. TTN attempts to deescalate the situation and remove LLW from the situation by grabbing him around the waist and physically pulling him away Scolman walks towards the steps to go upstairs and places his left foot on the first step. LLW appears to say something that upset Scolman Scolman stops walking up the steps and charges LLW and TTN,” the complaint says. “Scolman stabs TTN in the left side of his chest near his heart and then began running down the stairs, chasing LLW with the knife still in his right hand.”
An investigator “explained to LLW why he thought LLW was the target and he stated “Yeah it could be. I been thinking about the same thing.””
LLW told investigators he had a confrontation with Scolman two days earlier.
“LLW said he said “’dude ain’t on (expletive).’ Meaning like man he ain’t, he ain’t you know he ain’t want to smoke or he ain’t, he ain’t on nothing.”,” according to the complaint.
Scolman would not talk to investigators, the complaint says.
Scolman is serving a 21-year prison term for a fatal drunk driving crash in Milwaukee County, court records show. He was convicted of battery by an inmate for a 2016 incident in Dodge County.
He was transferred to a prison in Boscobel on Oct. 21, state records show.
