Joshua Scolman appears in Brown County court Dec. 27, 2022, via video conference from Waupun Correctional Institution. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A race-based hate crime enhancer has been added to charges filed for an inmate-on-inmate murder at the Green Bay Correctional Institution.
Joshua Scolman is charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the Oct. 21, 2022, stabbing death of Timothy Nabors. According to the criminal complaint, Scolman was targeting another inmate with whom he had a dispute but ended up killing Nabors, who tried to break up the fight. Scolman also faces an attempted homicide charge for the targeted inmate.
An amended information was filed Friday, adding the hate crime penalty enhancer.
“And further, invoking the provisions of sec. 939.645(1)&(2)(c) Wis. Stats., because the defendant committed a crime under chapters 939 to 948, and intentionally selected the person against whom the crime was committed in whole or in part because of the defendant’s belief or perception regarding the race of that person, the maximum penalty for the underlying crime may be increased by not more than $5,000, and the maximum term of imprisonment may be increased by not more than five (5) years,” the document states.
However, an amended criminal complaint was not filed, and the original criminal complaint offered no details about the motive or facts related to a hate crime.
Scolman is scheduled to be in prison until 2058 as a result of a conviction for a drunken driving crash that killed three people in Milwaukee County in 2007.
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