(KTLA) – Two Southern California inmates have been named suspects in the assault of a third inmate at the California State Penitentiary (SAC), formerly known as New Folsom Correctional Facility. Officials announced Thursday.
According to a CDCR news release, the violence occurred in the prison’s main exercise area shortly after 5 p.m. on Jan. 15.
Prison officials said officers responded when two inmates, identified as 32-year-old Cody Taylor and 58-year-old David Gomez, attacked 36-year-old Mario Campbell, and “expelled a chemical substance.” “After just one use,” he said, the violence immediately stopped.
The victim was rushed to a hospital outside the prison, but doctors pronounced him dead just before 6:30 p.m.
The statement detailed that officers found “three improvised weapons” at the scene of the attack at the training range.
Mario Campbell, 36 (CDCR) Cody R. Taylor, 32 (CDCR) David M. Gomez, 58 (CDCR)
Taylor and Gomez were both placed in restrictive housing as prison officials launched a murder investigation.
Campbell was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for “forcible entry by force against the victim’s will” and was transferred to SAC in October 2009, officials said. The 36-year-old was also convicted of several charges, including false imprisonment, felon in possession of a firearm, first-degree robbery and burglary.
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Mr. Taylor was most recently sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in Sacramento County for first-degree murder, among other violent crimes, and was transferred from Ventura County to SAC in May 2013.
He was originally transferred to SAC from Los Angeles County in April 1998 for rape, forcible oral copulation, and first-degree robbery, and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. In January 2021, he was convicted of first-degree murder and another violent crime in Monterey County and again sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
The California State Penitentiary in Sacramento County opened in 1986 and houses more than 2,200 medium-, maximum-, and high-security inmates.
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