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WINDSOR – An inmate serving a life sentence here for murder has been transferred to another state prison following an attack on a correctional officer.

Shalan Davenski Wilson, age 49, was charged by the Windsor Police Department with assault, inflicting serious injury on a correctional officer.

The incident occurred at around 8 a.m. on Saturday (Dec. 7) at Bertie Correctional Institution. The police report indicates that Wilson attacked the officer with a broken broomstick.

The injuries inflicted upon the correctional officer required him to be hospitalized. He has since been released and is recovering at home.

According to the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction, Wilson has been moved to a high-security unit at Granville Correctional Institution.

Wilson was serving two life sentences, without the possibility of parole, for double murder at a Cleveland County business.

Court records show that during the late evening hours Dec. 2, C. Ervin Lovelace and Hugh Wayne Marcrum were found shot to death at Little Dan’s, their place of employment.

Wilson was developed as a suspect and arrested the next day. On Jan. 10, 1994, Wilson was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of robbery with a dangerous weapon. Superseding indictments were issued Feb. 12, 1994 and an additional indictment was issued for conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.

In a capital trial, Wilson was found guilty on both counts of first-degree murder on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation and under the felony murder rule. He was also found guilty of robbery with a firearm and conspiracy to commit robbery with a firearm.

At a capital sentencing proceeding, the jury recommended sentences of life imprisonment as to each of the first-degree murder convictions. The trial judge imposed a sentence of 14 years imprisonment for the robbery conviction; three years for the conspiracy conviction; and, in accordance with the jury recommendation, two life sentences for the first-degree murder convictions.