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Warrants: 2 Baldwin State Prisoners fatally stabbed inmate, set him on fire

Warrants allege the pair choked and stabbed him to death before lighting him on fire in his bed
Credit: Baldwin County

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Arrest warrants for two Baldwin State Prison inmates charged with the June homicide of another inmate reveal new information.

Here’s what we know:

The victim, David Watson, was pronounced dead around 9 a.m. on June 5, and two people were charged with his murder.

They were identified as Timothy Dunigan and Trinity Bussler.

The arrest warrants detail how the pair allegedly killed Watson. They say he was first choked by them and then stabbed in the face, neck and back multiple times.

After he died, the two men then allegedly put him face down on his bunk and his body was set on fire.

Watson was serving a 25-year sentence for aggravated sexual battery from a case in Coweta County.

According to the Georgia Department of Corrections inmate search, Bussler is currently serving for multiple counts of burglary and false imprisonment. Dunigan is in prison for an armed robbery case.

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