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A Sussex I State Prison inmate died Wednesday from injuries suffered in an attack suspected to have been committed by his cellmate, a Richmond man serving 95 years for the attempted murder of a police officer and 13 other crimes.

Pakastan Algier Gary died at the Southside Regional Medical Center at 6:50 p.m., according to the Virginia Department of Corrections. The department said it was not allowed to release Gary’s record, but said he entered the prison system on June 25, 1997.

According to online court records, Gary was convicted of murder and use of a firearm in Norfolk in 1997.

The Department of Corrections said that the incident at 10:33 a.m. on Wednesday involved a suspected in-cell attack by the victim’s cellmate. The suspect was identified as Frank Elmo Reid.

Reid, 40, of the 1100 block Williamsburg Road, was convicted in Richmond in 2017 of 14 crimes committed during a 2015 crime wave. He was hit five times by police gunfire, including three wounds in the head, leaving him partially paralyzed and with traumatic brain injury.