A young Alabama father of two, who died after allegedly being beaten and sexually assaulted by a gang in prison, wrote an eerie Facebook post just days before the attack apparently unfolded.
“How every body doing [sic] I ain’t got to much longer left pray for me I’m coming home better then I was before drug free it’s been a crazy ride 3 different prisons now. It’s almost over,” Daniel Terry Williams, 22, wrote on Oct. 15, about one week before his family says he was brutally beaten by a prison gang on Oct. 19.
Williams was likely referring to his upcoming release from the Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Alabama, on Nov. 9 — the same day he died after being taken off life support, as his father and stepmother previously told Fox News Digital.
He was serving a one-year sentence for assault and theft charges as part of a plea agreement, according to Jefferson County court records. He had only been at Staton for about two weeks following a transfer to the Elmore facility when he was allegedly beaten and sexually assaulted last month.
“That boy moved in his sleep. He was always finding something to do, whether it was tearing something apart or fixing something,” she said. “He was raising his daughter, which he loved. He was a really good dad.”
Williams’ daughter is 1 year old, and he also had a young son. A GoFundMe made in Daniel Terry Williams’ full name aims to raise money for his funeral expenses.
Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
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