Gillis, Shawn

Tenure Summary

What happened on their watch

By GPS cause-category coding, 11 of those deaths are coded as category 6, three as category 3, and one as category 7. GPS research notes that Saquan Dewest Anderson was stabbed to death at Wheeler on March 3, 2025, and that five people were indicted for murder, citing The Advance News and 13WMAZ. A GPS record note lists “Homocide” for Baldemar Jaramillo. A user report attached to Dustin James Parham’s record alleges that he was handcuffed when officers used excessive force. A GPS Case Management entry for Jeffrey Scott Lay contains a witness account stating that Lay complained of intense pain for weeks, was repeatedly given Tums, and had internal bleeding before his death.

Facility intel records also document contraband-cellphone allegations during Gillis’s tenure. KLTV reported an allegation that Marcus Allen Daniels ran a $13,000 bitcoin scam from Wheeler using an illegal cellphone, targeting a Lindale woman by impersonating a sheriff’s employee. The Georgia Virtue reported that inmate Dequatte Tucker directed a drug trafficking conspiracy from inside Georgia state prisons using contraband cellphones. GPS event records show a shakedown at Wheeler on April 14, 2026 recovered a cellphone from Daniels’s cell, and a warrant for Daniels was issued May 6, 2026 with a $1 million bond. Tucker was sentenced June 25, 2026 to 188 months. GPS also lists a September 5, 2024 sentencing of Jose Calderon to 262 months for brokering methamphetamine distribution from Wheeler using a contraband cellphone. Separate GPS case submissions reported an inmate stabbed in the chest in dorm 8m4 in April 2026 and a relayed tip of serious violence at Wheeler in March 2026.

Sources

• GPS intelligence records — personnel, tenure, death, cause-category, case management, and intel event data
• KLTV.com — May 7, 2026 report on Marcus Allen Daniels bitcoin scam allegation
• The Georgia Virtue — report on Dequatte Tucker drug trafficking conspiracy and sentencing
• The Advance News — cited in GPS research for the Saquan Dewest Anderson homicide
• 13WMAZ — cited in GPS research for the Saquan Dewest Anderson homicide

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Aug 30, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.