FORT SMITH — A Sebastian County sheriff’s deputy says a county jail inmate suspected of killing another inmate claims God told him to kill.
Chief Deputy Tommy Young says 25-year-old Ashley Eugene Kaufman is suspected of strangling 64-year-old Gary Wolf Thursday morning in Kaufman’s cell.
It was not known whether Kaufman had an attorney.
Young says Kaufman told deputies he called Wolf into his cell after breakfast and strangled him with his hands then dragged his body into Wolf’s cell.
A deputy delivering medications found Wolf dead in his bunk.
Wolf was being held on charges of molesting two children. Kaufman was being held for kidnapping and battery.