The former prison guard says Whitey Bulger, the notorious Mafia chief of Boston, wanted to "die"

The head of the Boston underworld, James "Whitey" Bulger, who was found beaten to death last year in a high-security prison in West Virginia, may have "wanted to die," suggested a former responsible for the prison.

Charles Lockett, the former custodian of a Florida jail where Bulger was originally detained, said the 89-year-old gangster had repeatedly denied medical attention for severe chest pain, which led him to stop for the first time. 39, prompted him to be transferred to Hazelton Federal Prison in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, NBC News reported Monday.

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"Frankly, I think he wanted to die," said former Coleman II director at the newspaper. "I think whatever his problems, he managed to make peace with them."

Bulger was found bleeding and wrapped in a blanket at 8:21 am on October 30, 2018, apparently hit with a lock squeezed into a sock. He had arrived at the facility less than 12 hours before his death.

A death certificate indicated that Bulger had died as a result of a "blunt wound to the head". The perpetrator was "assaulted by one or more others" in his "prison cell," the document says. His death was described as homicide.

"It's a tragedy, but I do not think anyone has failed," Lockett told NBC News.

Bulger's transfer comes after he threatened a nursing supervisor, who had urged the inmate to see a specialist for his heart problems, Lockett said. As the prisoners could not be forced to receive treatment, the staff could only monitor Bulger's condition, which had subsequently improved.

"They could not decide if he was sick or not," Lockett said at the exit. "He absolutely did not want medical care, which is sad. If he had agreed to go see a specialist, he would probably have gone to another medical facility. But the fact that he refused to see a medical specialist is what created these problems. "

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Bulger was sentenced to life imprisonment for 11 murders and other crimes in 2013. He was sadly known as one of the country's most wanted fugitives after fleeing Boston from 1994 until the end of his life. 2011.

Bulger's death was not charged, but officials said two Massachusetts criminals were suspected of killing him.

Elizabeth Zwirz of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.