MONTEREY COUNTY — A person sentenced to jail 25 years in the past for a theft conviction in Santa Clara County was reportedly killed by one other inmate at Salinas Valley State Jail final week, authorities stated.
Peter Hernandez, 59, was gravely wounded Wednesday morning on the jail situated within the Monterey County metropolis of Soledad, in line with the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The company stated in a information launch Monday that correctional officers had been referred to as at 8:04 a.m. that day to a housing unit dayroom — a shared general-purpose area — and noticed 30-year-old Angel Montes attacking Hernandez with a prison-made weapon.
After utilizing “chemical brokers” to cease the assault, the officers referred to as for an ambulance and employees tried to revive Hernandez, however he died about quarter-hour later, authorities stated. His loss of life is being investigated by the jail, Monterey County District Lawyer’s Workplace and coroner’s division as a murder, and Montes was put into segregated housing, in line with the information launch.
No different accidents had been reported. Further particulars concerning the circumstances of the assault weren't instantly launched.
CDCR said that Montes was sentenced to life in jail in Kings County final November for convictions of tried homicide of a authorities official utilizing a firearm, tried first-degree homicide utilizing a firearm, resisting an officer with the specter of violence or use of a firearm, resisting an officer with a risk or violence, carjacking utilizing a firearm, auto theft, tried auto theft, and vandalism.
Hernandez was sentenced to a life jail time period in Might 1997 in Santa Clara County for convictions of second-degree theft and petty theft, with sentencing enhancements as a result of they had been third offenses beneath the state’s three-strikes legislation, in line with jail officers. Final November, whereas in custody in Kings County — probably Corcoran state jail, based mostly on his conviction — Hernandez was issued a separate two-year sentence after he was reportedly discovered with a weapon.