FOLSOM — Two inmates serving life sentences have died after being attacked at Northern California prisons, corrections officers stated Wednesday.
Robert Tunstall, 64, died Wednesday morning after one other inmate attacked him within the recreation yard at Salinas Valley State Jail, based on an announcement from the state Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Life-saving measures failed and Tunstall was pronounced useless a few half-hour after the assault, authorities stated.
An inmate-made weapon was recovered and a suspect recognized as Lawrence Adams, 42.
Tunstall was admitted to jail from Solano County in 1976, to serve life with the potential of parole for first-degree homicide, corrections officers stated.
Adams was admitted from Tuolomne County in 2007 to serve life in jail with the potential of parole beneath third-strike convictions for arson and different prices. He additionally was serving extra years for 2 assaults on different inmates at separate prisons, authorities stated.
In the meantime, authorities had been investigating the dying of an inmate at State Jail, Sacramento on Tuesday afternoon.
Two fellow inmates assaulted Felipe Rodriguez within the jail yard and the 36-year-old was pronounced useless a few half-hour later.
Two inmate-made weapons had been recovered, authorities stated.
Rodriguez was serving life sentences, together with one with out the potential of parole, for crimes together with mayhem, extortion, tried homicide and kidnapping leading to dying. He was first despatched to jail from San Bernardino County in 2015 to serve 9 years for carjacking, authorities stated.
Investigators named two suspects: 41-year-old Selso E. Orozco Jr. and 36-year-old Mike A. Calderon.
Orozco is serving a 23-year sentence on theft and weapons prices. Calderon obtained a life-without-parole sentence after being convicted of first-degree homicide.