Boston gangster James 'Whitey' Bulger Jr. has been killed behind bars shortly after he was transferred to a federal prison in West Virginia
He was 89.Bulger was listed as transferred on Tuesday to USP Hazelton, a high-security prison with an adjacent minimum security satellite camp in Bruceton Mills
He was killed inside the prison on Tuesday, two sources told the Boston Globe. Boston-based reporter Michele McPhee was the first to break news that Bulger had been killed
Richard Heldreth, the president of the corrections officers' union at Hazelton, told WVNews that a male inmate had been slain there overnight, but was unable to immediately confirm the inmate's identity
Organized crime boss Bulger had been convicted in 2013 of killing at least 11 people and was serving a life sentence
He was one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives for 16 years until his 2011 arrest in Santa Monica, California
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'Whitey' Bulger refuses to testify for 'innocent man'. Share this article Share Bulger had recently been moved Hazelton from a prison in Florida after a stint in a transfer facility in Oklahoma City
Bureau of Prisons officials and his attorney declined last week to comment on why he was being moved
In the past three months, there have been three homicides at Hazelton, with the officers' union blaming chronic under-staffing
'We are very understaffed,' he told WPRI12.Bulger was serving a life sentence after being convicted in 2013 of a litany of crimes, including participating in 11 murders
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