The South Central Correctional Center at Licking. Credit: FILE PHOTO

An inmate at the South Central Correctional Center at Licking died at Mercy Hospital in Springfield early Thursday morning, the Missouri Department of Corrections said.

Eria Doss, 33, was serving a 79-year sentence for four counts of second-degree murder, three counts of first-degree robbery and six counts of armed criminal action from Jackson County, and delivery or possession of a weapon at a correctional center out of Texas County.

Doss was received in the Missouri Department of Corrections in May 2011.

An autopsy will be conducted, the department said.

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