State Police on Tuesday formally charged Richard Stahursky with murder in connection with the stabbing death of fellow inmate Micah Boland at the Maine State Prison in Warren Friday afternoon.

In a statement released Tuesday afternoon, State Police spokesman Steve McCausland said Stahursky, 35, will make his first appearance in Knox County Superior Court Thursday at 1 p.m.

McCausland said detectives working with the Maine Attorney General’s Office filed paperwork at the court today and then notified Stahursky of the charge. Stahursky remains at the prison, and is currently being segregated from other inmates. 

Maine’s Deputy Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Mark Flomenbaum, who completed the autopsy on Micah Boland over the weekend, concluded 37-year-old Micah Boland of Rockland died as a result of “multiple stab wounds of face, neck, and torso with extensive hemorrhage and blunt impact of head with bone fractures and brain injury,” according to the statement.

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