# Inmate convicted of murder in Central Georgia killed in potential homicide in South Georgia prison, GDC says – 13WMAZ > An inmate at Ware State Prison in South Georgia, Kojack Thomas Jr., 27, was pronounced dead on May 31 in what the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is investigating as a potential homicide. Thom… **Published**: 2026-06-03 **Source**: https://gps.press/gps-news/inmate-convicted-of-murder-in-central-georgia-killed-in-potential-homicide-in-south-georgia-prison-gdc-says-13wmaz/ **Author**: Georgia Prisoners' Speak --- An inmate at Ware State Prison in South Georgia, Kojack Thomas Jr., 27, was pronounced dead on May 31 in what the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) is investigating as a potential homicide. Thomas had been convicted of murder in Dodge County for his role in the 2018 robbery and killing of an elderly couple in Chester, receiving a life sentence without parole. The GDC’s Office of Professional Standards is leading the investigation, and Thomas’s body has been sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab to determine the official cause of death.