FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Inmate Sentenced to Life For Throwing Human Feces on Correctional Officers
September 17, 2025
District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on September 12, 2025, Judge William H. Burris sentenced 37-year-old Tomarcus Porter of New Orleans to life in prison after a jury found Porter guilty of committing a battery on a correctional officer. The jury returned its guilty verdict on June 10, 2025, at the conclusion of a 2-day trial over which Judge Burris presided. Assistant District Attorneys Le’Anne Malnar and Amanda Gritten prosecuted the case. Major Tylan Self with the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections handled the investigation.
According to testimony from the trial, a correctional officer at the B.B. “Sixty” Rayburn Correctional Center in Angie was making security rounds when he gave an instruction to Porter, who was an inmate at the facility. Porter ignored the instruction and instead, reached into his toilet and grabbed a handful of human feces. Porter deliberately flung the feces at the correctional officer, striking him in his face and on his arm and leg. A second correctional officer who had approached was struck on his head and shoulder. Additional staff was summoned and eventually subdued Porter.
At the time of the incident, Porter was being housed at the Rayburn Correctional Center while he served a total of 20 years in prison on 8 sentences in 5 separate cases from Orleans Criminal District Court involving manslaughter, aggravated second degree battery, 4 counts of aggravated battery and 2 counts of introduction of contraband into a penal institution. Porter’s manslaughter conviction in New Orleans was originally indicted as a second degree murder. The victim in that case was visiting New Orleans from Germany when she was reported missing. Her badly decomposed body was eventually found in Armstrong Park. Her throat had been slashed.
In addition to the previously mentioned convictions, Porter has convictions for aggravated sexual battery, second degree battery, theft (3 times), illegal carrying of weapons, failure to register as a convicted sex offender, aggravated assault, criminal damage to property (3 times) and introduction of contraband into a penal institution (6 times).