A Washington State inmate was sentenced to an additional 24 years for murdering his cellmate - a convicted child rapist who had abused his sister.
Shane Goldsby, 26, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges, and was sentenced last week for beating his cellmate Robert Munger, 70, to death in June 2020.
Munger was serving a 43-year prison sentence at the Airway Heights Correctional facility on multiple child molestation and child pornography charges, when Goldsby was assigned to his cell.
Goldsby said he snapped after hearing Munger brag about his crimes, and while in a prison common area, came up from behind and attacked Munger, knocking him to the ground, before punching and kicking him in the face 14 times and then stomping on his head another four times before walking away.
Munger died three days later from his injuries.
Shane Goldsby, 26, (left) was sentenced to an additional 24 years in prison after he beat his cellmate, Robert Munger, 70, to death upon discovering he had sexually assaulted his sister. Munger was serving a 43-year prison sentence for child molestation and child porn possession
Goldsby said that he killed Munger after discovering his younger sister, who is still a minor, was one of Munger's victims, KHQ reported.
'I had so much stuff going on in my head,' he said. 'I wasn't stable at that point. I wasn't. I was getting to that point, because (Munger) kept wanting to give me details about what happened, what he did – about the photos and the videos of him doing this stuff. It was building up.'
The child's mother, Cindy Elliott, and an anonymous tipster told the station the Munger had raped the girl.
Goldsby expressed his disbelief that something like that could happen, and that when he found out who Munger was, he requested a different cellmate, but was ignored.
'I was in shock,' he said. 'I was like, 'what the f***?'... This stuff doesn't happen. You're talking the same institution, the same unit, the same pod in the same cell as this dude. That's like hitting the jackpot in the casino seven times.'
Munger had been convicted in December, 2019 for child rape, child molestation and possession of child pornography.
Meanwhile Goldsby was serving time for a 2017 incident in which he stole a police vehicle and took police on a lengthy chase before crashing it into a Washington State patrol vehicle and injuring the trooper
