The Kansas Bureau of Investigation arrested a Great Bend man Thursday for reportedly killing another man while he was serving a sentence at the Barton County Jail.

The KBI arrested Jose Guadalupe Villegas, 27, around 4 p.m. on Aug. 26 for second-degree murder connected to the death of 46-year-old Scott E. Deines, of Great Bend. Villegas was arrested at the Barton County Jail, 1408 Kansas Ave., where he was already in custody.

Sheriff Brian Bellendir issued a news release that came from the KBI after the arrest. 

The investigation revealed that Villegas injured Deines during a physical altercation at the jail on July 22. On Sunday, July 25, just before 11 a.m., detention officers found Deines unresponsive in his cell. EMS pronounced him deceased at the scene. The autopsy report indicated that Deines died of blunt force trauma to his head.

Deines was booked into the jail on July 16 on charges of failure to appear and possession of opiates. Villegas had been at the facility since June 30, after he was ordered to serve out his remaining community corrections sentence there.

Bellendir said nothing further will be released at this time. “Any further details will be made available from the KBI.”