Mielun Butler, 18, who is charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Melvin Edwards, is found dead at the Hinds County Detention Center in Mississippi, according to a coroner’s account cited by multiple outlets. Butler was recently booked into the jail and had been under custody there for only days before he was discovered dead. Reports say a video circulating from inside the facility shows Butler on the floor and appears to capture others assaulting him as he remains motionless. The New York Post and Daily Mail both describe Butler as being bloodied in the footage. Both outlets frame the incident as involving an alleged assault that results in his death while he is held at the detention center. The accounts attribute key details—such as Butler’s age, the detention center location, the connection to Edwards’ killing, and the existence of the video—to the coroner’s remarks. The reports do not provide confirmed information about who is responsible or the specific findings of any investigation beyond the circumstances described.