UPDATE: ‘Whitey’ Bulger Was BEATEN To Death

Earlier today I wrote that James “Whitey” Bulger, a Boston mob boss who inspired multiple movies, had been found dead in prison.

“He’s OLD – no surprise there,” was the general consensus.

Yeeeah. Only he was beaten to death. So there’s that.

According to Fox News:

Infamous Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, who was found dead at a West Virginia prison on Tuesday, appeared to have been fatally beaten by inmates with potential mob ties, according to a report.

Bulger, 89, “was found unresponsive” around 8:20 a.m. Tuesday morning at USP Hazelton in Bruceton Mills, W.V., where he’d been in custody since Monday, the Bureau of Prisons said in a news release. Bulger was recently moved from a prison in Florida and had a stop in Oklahoma City before arriving in West Virginia.

Two unidentified Bureau of Prisons employees told The New York Times that multiple inmates at the facility had beaten and ultimately killed Bulger. The suspected inmates were potentially “affiliated with the mob,” however details were unclear, one source told the outlet.

Bulger’s death was being investigated as a homicide, a prison official told The Associated Press.

Yeeeeah…

That’s a little different than “natural causes.”

Bulger, who was a fugitive for 16 years, was sentenced in 2013 to life in prison after being convicted of several crimes including racketeering and money-laundering. The jury believed he took part in 11 of 19 killings.

He was one of America’s most wanted criminals until he was captured in Santa Monica, Calif. in 2011.

I won’t really shed a tear for him… he caused many deaths himself. But yeah, this is pretty gruesome.