Notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has been killed in a US federal prison in West Virginia, according to US media.<\/p>\n
The 89-year-old was found dead in his cell at the maximum security facility shortly after being transferred there from a Florida jail.<\/p>\n
Bulger, who was convicted in 2013 of 11 murders, inspired several films based on his dark life.<\/p>\n
Bulger was captured in California in 2011 after a 16-year manhunt.<\/p>\n
The former leader of South Boston’s Winter Hill gang inspired the film Black Mass featuring Johnny Depp, and The Departed which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2006.<\/p>\n
His death comes on the same day that he was transferred to the Hazelton penitentiary in West Virginia, which houses 1,385 inmates, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The Bureau of Prisons declined to comment last week on why Bulger – who was serving a life sentence – was being moved.<\/p>\n
The details of his death have not been announced, but a local union official for correctional workers at the prison\u00a0told CBS<\/a>\u00a0that a “homicide” occurred on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n “This is the third homicide in seven months at our facility,” Richard Heldreth said in a phone interview. “We are very understaffed, we are short about 40 officers.”<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"