It’s being reported by TMZ that American Mobster Whitey Bulger who found dead in his cell was targeted for a mob hit and the killers did what mob killers do with so-called “rats” — they try to cut out their tongue and gouge their eyes out.
According to TMZ, Sources at the USP Hazelton prison said that the Bulger murder was carried out by four assailants who walked into the cell where he was seated in his wheelchair at around 6 AM Tuesday.
They brutally beat him with a lock in a sock and used a shiv to try and gouge his eyes out. They also attempted to cut out his tongue. There was a lot of blood in Bulger’s mouth though it hasn’t been confirmed if the tongue was actually removed.
Through the actual attack was not caught on video, surveillance cameras captured the 4 inmates walking into Bulger’s cell and walking out with their clothes clearly bloodied. .
The killers reportedly went back to their cells, changed out of their bloody clothes and then walked back to Bulger’s cell with a mop and a bucket to clean up the mess.
Prison sources speculate the attactk was mob retaliation because Bulger was considered a rat and an informant who helped put away several members of the mob.
Bulger was 89 years old and was serving a life sentence after he was convited for 19 murders