BALTIMORE—A man who was awaiting trial for murder when he strangled his cellmate to death in Baltimore’s jail was sentenced Thursday to life without parole.
After Staron, 35, had been charged in an apparently random stabbing attack, jail administrators housed him in a cell with Javarick Gantt, a deaf man facing relatively minor charges who relied on sign language to communicate. Gantt’s death in October 2022 raised significant concerns about operations in the city’s detention center and its backlogged court system, but corrections officials have declined to answer questions about the cell assignment.
