For Immediate Release: November 5th, 2021
Contact: Katie Mostris, 410.350.9756
Sentenced After 20 Years: Justice for Family of Murdered Correctional Officer
SALISBURY, MD- Today, the family, friends, and co-workers of Gregory Guy Collins will finally see justice as the sentencing for his murder will be announced twenty years after his death. On June 4th, 2001, after his shift at the Eastern Correctional Institute, Collins was murdered by John Michael Ingersoll Jr. For 18 years, Officer Collins's family had waited for justice as the case sat cold until last year when the Maryland State Police announced the charges. A grand jury convicted Ingersoll of first- and second-degree murder on Friday, September 13th.
Gregory Guy Collins, 31, of Vienna, Maryland, was a three-year veteran of the Division of Correction and a member of the Maryland National Guard. Although the Collins family will continue to live with this tragedy, we are relieved to see justice served. We hope this brings some peace of mind to the Collins family and the men and women who served with Officer Collins at ECI.
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