A state inmate from New Orleans has received a life sentence after a jury found him guilty of throwing his feces at a correctional officer, hitting him in the face.
Tomarcus Porter was jailed at the B-B "Sixty" Rayburn Correctional Center when the incident happened. Prosecutors told the jury that Porter reached into his cell's toilet and flung the dung at the officer after he gave Porter an order while making his rounds. The fecal matter hit the officer landed in the officer's face and on his arms and legs. The feces also hit a second correctional officer who was coming to help in the head and on his shoulders.
Other officers later arrived to subdue Porter.
Porter was already in jail on a manslaughter charge for killing a German tourist in New Orleans, slashing her throat and dumping her body in Armstrong Park. He initially indicted on a second-degree murder for that case, but the charge was later reduced.
In addition, Porter was convicted of and serving time for the manslaughter charge, Porter was serving time for convictions on aggravated second-degree battery, aggravated battery, aggravated sexual battery, theft, illegal carrying of weapons, introduction of contraband into a penal institution, and criminal damage to property charges.