Family Tragedy
On August 10, 2005, Rock Halsey, Halsey's son from his first marriage, was murdered at the age of forty-nine by two fellow inmates while serving more than half of a 24-year sentence for a drug conviction at the U.S. penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. In 2007, the inmates, Timothy R. McCalliser and Jerimy C. Sneed, both then in their early thirties, pleaded guilty to murdering Halsey and received life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. McCallister cut Rock Halsey's throat with a prison-made knife as Sneed held down the victim. The killing was witnessed by a corrections officer and partly videotaped.
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