SOLEDAD — A 64-year-old man was stabbed to loss of life Wednesday on a recreation yard at Salinas Valley State Jail, authorities mentioned.
The sufferer, recognized as Robert Tunstall, is a Solano County native who spent almost his total grownup life behind bars. He was arrested in 1976 on suspicion of murdering one Vallejo girl and non-fatally capturing a second throughout a handbag theft in Fairfield.
In accordance with media experiences on the time, Tunstall, 18 on the time, and a 17-year-old boy, had been arrested in July 1976 on suspicion of murdering Annie Lou Barnes, 61, and capturing a 44-year-old girl within the neck, shoulder, and hip. Tunstall’s co-defendant, David Day, pleaded responsible and was sentenced to life in jail.
Each victims had been fishing once they had been shot with a high-powered looking rifle, police mentioned on the time. The motive was theft.
Tunstall died Wednesday morning after being stabbed with an “inmate-made weapon,” jail officers mentioned in a information launch. The suspect is 42-year-old Lawrence Adams, sentenced to life in Tuolumne County in 2007 for arson with destruction of public property, possession of an explosive gadget in a public place and vandalism, beneath the California Three Strikes regulation.
Authorities haven't launched a motive, however say they may current a case to the Monterey County District Legal professional for prosecution. Jail officers didn't reveal which recreation yard the stabbing occurred on, nor the place the inmates had been housed.