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An inmate in Abbotsford who was convicted of two killings, including one with a 14-pound sledgehammer, has died of natural causes, according to Correctional Service Canada (CSC).

A CSC press release on Tuesday (Sept. 23) states that Thomas Anthony McDonald – an inmate at Pacific Institution/Regional Treatment Centre – died Sept. 19 at the age of 74.

McDonald had been serving an indeterminate sentence, which began on Nov. 20, 2015, according to CSC.

McDonald was convicted of killing Earl Dean Jones on Sept. 26, 1981 in Dawson Creek, B.C. after an altercation in the bar of the Windsor Hotel.

Court documents indicate that McDonald waited for Jones and his wife to leave the bar, followed them in his truck to the outskirts of town and fired a single round

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