TRIAL BEGINS FOR MAN CHARGED WITH KILLING PRISON GUARD

Jurors are now hearing testimony in the trial of a man charged in the 2018 killing of a Somerset prison guard.  Investigators say that prisoner Paul Kendrick, serving time for murder, brutally beat corrections officer Mark Baserman inside a housing unit at Somerset State Correctional Institution.  Baserman died of his injuries eleven days later.  Prosecutors on Tuesday presented a video showing Kendrick’s beating of the victim.