Inmate Who Dies Has Connections to a Columbus Shooting

RANKIN COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – A state inmate that died this past weekend is the father of a man that was shot and killed by a former Columbus police officer.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections says 58 year-old Ricky Martin started having trouble breathing at a Rankin County prison and later died at a hospital.

Ricky Martin

Autopsy results are pending.

Martin is the father of Ricky Ball.

Ball was shot by former Columbus officer Canyon Boykin in October 2015.

A manslaughter trial is pending.

Martin was serving 60 year sentence for selling cocaine in Lowndes County.