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FOLSOM, Calif. (KCRA) — Investigators are looking into the second homicide in a week at California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said state prison staff in Folsom saw an inmate, Julio Caesar Madrigal, 36, striking another inmate, Danny Aguilar, 47 around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
After staff ordered all inmates in the area to get down, officials said Madrigal failed to comply and staff fired two less-lethal rounds at him to stop the attack.
Staff then began life-saving measures on Aguilar, as they transferred him to the prison’s triage and treatment area. Officers then called 911 and a physician later pronounced Aguilar dead.
Prison staff were not injured.
Officials said Madrigal was restrained in restricted housing, where he remains pending an investigation by prison’s Investigative Services Unit and Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office.
An improvised weapon was found at the scene, CDCR said.
Aguilar was received from Los Angeles County on Oct. 26, 2006 and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, CDCR said.
Madrigal was received from Tulare County on June 9, 2022, after being sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder.
The deadly attack is the second homicide investigation at the prison in the past week. On Aug. 11, Walter Badelle was found unconscious by staff in his prison cell.
Badelle was later pronounced dead by outside ambulance staff.
His cellmate, Jonathan Blackwell, was placed in handcuffs and placed in restricted housing.
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