• Bulger was serving life sentence for litany of crimes
  • FBI investigating as officials say no other inmates were hurt

James “Whitey” Bulger, the notorious Boston gangster who became one of America’s most wanted fugitives, has died in prison.

The 89-year-old Bulger was found dead on Tuesday morning at the Hazelton penitentiary in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. Staff attempted “life-saving measures”, but Bulger was subsequently pronounced dead by the Preston county medical examiner.

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