UPDATE: Dwight Darnell Bowen was sentenced to 20-40 years in state prison for the death of 32-year-old Luis Antonio Santiago on January 1st of 2019. This will run consecutively to the sentence he is currently serving in state prison.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for today for a former SCI Pine Grove inmate who was convicted of killing his cellmate.
The hearing for Dwight Darnell Bowen was rescheduled for today in front of Indiana County President Judge William Martin after it was continued for the second time on December 1st. Bowen was found guilty of third degree murder in September for the death of 32-year-old Luis Antonio Santiago on January 1st of 2019.
Police said Bowen had called for prison guards to come to his cell just after 10:00 PM. Guards found Bowen at his cell window and Santiago was on the floor, unresponsive, without a pulse and not breathing. Santiago was pronounced dead at IRMC with the cause of death listed as asphyxia due to venous obstruction.
Bowen had been serving life in prison for guilty pleas to the 2001 murders of two toddlers, ages 3 and 1, in a Molotov Cocktail firebombing of a row house in Philadelphia after a dispute between Bowen and another man.
