Micah Laureano died Aug. 27, 2024 as a result of an incident with a cellmate at Green Bay Correctional Institution. (Photo source: Wisconsin Department of Corrections)
ALLOUEZ, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — An inmate at the Green Bay Correctional Institution was strangled to death by his cellmate, prison officials said Thursday.
Micah Laureano, 19, died Tuesday night after the incident in the cell he shared with 24-year-old Jackson Vogel.
A news release from the Brown County Sheriff’s Office’s confirmed Laureano died “of strangulation/suffocation by manner of homicide.”
According to the release, Laureano and Vogel “had occupied the same cell for only hours before the incident.”
An investigation is ongoing. Formal charges against Vogel are expected to be filed late next week, officials said.
Laureano was sentenced to a year in prison in January on a substantial battery charge from Waukesha County, court records show. After Laureano’s admission into the prison sentence, he was transferred in to GBCI on April 12, prison records state.
Vogel is serving a 20-year sentence for attempted homicide in Manitowoc County for stabbing his mother. He arrived at GBCI in June.
Officials say at approximately 9:35 p.m. Tuesday, officers were dispatched to GBCI for report of an inmate who was pulseless and non-breathing. Deputies and medical personnel arrived on scene to render aid, but the victim, Laureano, was “beyond help” and pronounced dead at the scene.
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