Convicted serial assassin Ramon Escobar is suspected of killing his new cellmate on Friday at a central California jail, officers have stated.
Escobar, 51, shared a jail room with Juan Villanueva at North Kern State Prison in Delano.
Villanueva, 53, was discovered unresponsive on 24 February at 8.49am.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) in a press release stated that an officer approached the cell and “immediately summoned for medical response”.
Prison workers tried to save lots of his life as an ambulance was referred to as and Villanueva was taken to a therapy space.
Despite the makes an attempt to resuscitate him, Villanueva was pronounced useless at 9.03am.
In the assertion, officers have stated that Villanueva was serving a life sentence with an opportunity of parole for the aggravated sexual assault of a kid beneath the age of 14 in Los Angeles County.
Escobar is suspected of killing Villanueva and has now been positioned in restricted housing pending an investigation, the CDCR company stated.
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The Kern County coroner will decide the official explanation for demise, authorities stated.
Other particulars haven’t but been supplied.
Serving a life sentence
Escobar, who’s initially from El Salvador, was serving a life sentence with out likelihood of parole after pleading responsible final 12 months to killing 5 males and injuring seven others.
He additionally pleaded responsible to having killed his aunt and uncle in Houston, Texas.
Escobar fled Texas after killing his family members in August 2018, prosecutors stated.
Prosecutors added that Escobar was homeless when he started attacking folks in Los Angeles and Santa Monica over the course of about two weeks in September 2018.
His trial was delayed till 2022 due to the pandemic.
Escobar arrived in jail custody final December and Villanueva arrived on 2 February, officers stated.
Both Escobar and Villanueva had been housed within the Reception Centre, which processes prisoners admitted from counties all through California.
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