A 70-year-old state inmate serving life in prison without parole in the shooting death of a woman has died while in custody.

Mitchell Crews was transported from William Donaldson Correctional Facility to UAB Hospital on Thursday because of a declining health condition, according to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office. Crews was pronounced dead at the hospital at 5:41 p.m.

Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said there was no evidence of foul play or trauma in the death of Crews.

Crews was convicted of murder in the 1991 shooting death of Myrtice Summerset in Dothan in an apparent domestic incident. He was sentenced to life in prison on the state’s Habitual Felony Offender Act.

He is the 22nd Donaldson inmate to die this year. In 2022, 40 inmates died at the prison.