Suspect In Teen Killing Assaulted In Jail

(originally published by 1010 WINS (among others) December 6, 2004. Credit to Associated Press)

(TOMS RIVER, N.J.)The man charged with killing a 16-year-old Brick Township girl in July was assaulted by other inmates and will not return to the county jail's general population, said the jail warden.

Warden Theodore Hutler Jr. said that Jack Fuller is now in the Ocean County Jail's medical unit. Hutler would not give any details of Fuller's medical condition.

Fuller, 39, was charged in July with murdering Brittney Gregory, a straight-A student at Brick Memorial High School. Gregory had been missing for more than two weeks before her naked body was found in a shallow grave about two miles from where she lived.

Fuller, an ex-convict who was a friend of Gregory's father, was put in the medical unit after he was assaulted by inmates about two weeks ago, Hutler said.

The warden said an investigation of the alleged assault could lead to either internal discipline or criminal charges against other inmates. Hutler would not talk about details of the investigation.