MIAMI COUNTY, Ind. (WPTA) - An investigation is underway at Miami Correctional Facility after two inmates, including a Fort Wayne man, died.

Indiana State Police (ISP) says detectives from its Peru Post Criminal Investigations Division have been requested in connection with the deaths of 36-year-old Trinidad J. Ramirez and 38-year-old Anthony Barbee.

The agency was called to investigate Ramirez’s death on November 26 and Barbee’s death on December 5.

According to MyCase records , Barbee was sentenced to three years in prison for battery by means of a deadly weapon in a Marion County court in February 2023.

Ramirez was found guilty of murder in a 2020 shooting in Fort Wayne and sentenced to 150 years by an Allen County Judge in April 2022.

The agency has not shared the exact date, ca

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