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Ottawa homicide detectives are investigating a jailhouse attack that left an accused killer, who allegedly beat a man into a coma last summer, in a coma himself and on life support.

Police are probing the violent jailhouse attack after Marco Michaud, 36, was severely beaten Wednesday afternoon by three other inmates at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre on Innes Road. No weapons are believed to have been used in the attack.

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Michaud, who was in detention awaiting trial on a charge of second-degree murder, was taken to hospital Wednesday just before 3 p.m. after the attack that left him with severe head injuries. He remained there Thursday evening in an induced coma and was not expected to survive.

Michaud had turned himself in to homicide detectives just six weeks ago, on Feb. 24, after police obtained a warrant for his arrest for an ultimately fatal beating in Vanier.

Detectives allege Michaud attacked 53-year-old Gerald Leduc inside Leduc’s Selkirk Street apartment in July 2017. That drug-related beating left Leduc in a coma for six months. He succumbed to his injuries in January, at which point, police started investigating the attack as a homicide. Michaud had been housed at the jail since turning himself in.