Family: Jail death ?senseless?

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In only two weeks, Xavier Anthony Tilghman was supposed to come home from the Baltimore City jail after serving a six-month sentence for misdemeanor assault. Instead, the 21-year-old was strangled to death by his teenage cellmate this week, investigators say.

“It still hasn?t hit us yet,” said Tilghman?s aunt, Geraldine Burgess. “We know he?s not coming back. We just can?t be happy. He wasn?t supposed to go out like that.”

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