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LAKE CITY, Fla. -- A Florida state prison inmate is accused of strangling and mutilating his cellmate in Columbia County.
Authorities say it happened early Thursday morning at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Lake City, which is a little more than 50 miles west of Jacksonville.
Detectives have not yet named the suspected killer, but prison sources told the Miami Herald the inmate gouged out his cellmate's eyeballs, wrapped his bloody body in a sheet and walked into the prison's cafeteria wearing the dead man's ear on a necklace. He allegedly left his cellmate's eyeballs in a cup promising to eat them later, The Herald reported.