Overview
- Dwayne Tottleben, 33, was shot and killed inside USP Coleman I on Oct. 10, according to the Sumter County medical examiner.
- The prison placed the facility on enhanced modified operations that day, and visitation remains suspended until further notice.
- The Bureau of Prisons has not posted its customary death notice or provided an account of what occurred, with media receiving limited responses during the federal shutdown.
- Tottleben’s family has retained attorney Robert J. Slama, who plans to seek an independent medical examination, and they have launched a GoFundMe for legal costs.
- Corrections experts note that fatal shootings in federal prisons are rare because BOP policy tightly limits when staff may carry firearms and permits deadly force only for imminent danger.