October 23, 2025 -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Cumberland County District Attorney Seán M. McCormack announced that criminal homicide charges were filed this evening against Dangelo Nowlin, 33 years old.  Nowlin was arrested in the early morning hours of October 22, 2025, for an unrelated defiant trespassing incident and was committed to the Cumberland County Prison. At approximately 11:52 AM, October 22, 2025, upon being assigned a cell at the prison, Nowlin entered the cell and allegedly began to physically assault the other occupant of the cell, Erick Gainer, 41 years of age. Gainer was sleeping in the top bunk at the time Nowlin entered the cell.  As a result of the injuries allegedly sustained during the assault, Gainer was taken to Holy Spirit Hospital where he received emergency surgery to treat the swelling of his brain.  Doctors were unable to control the swelling to Gainer’s brain and Gainer succumbed to his injuries at 6:32 PM tonight. Nowlin was arraigned this evening before Magisterial District Judge David J. Rogers and is ineligible for bail due to the charges. A preliminary hearing is set in the matter on November 5, 2025.  

NOTE: The above description of the incident are allegations at this time and Nowlin is considered innocent until or unless he is convicted in a court of law.