{"id":23044,"date":"2025-10-25T14:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/23044\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:06:29","slug":"3-convicted-murderers-at-central-california-prison-suspected-of-killing-fellow-inmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/23044\/","title":{"rendered":"3 convicted murderers at Central California prison suspected of killing fellow inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three convicted killers who are serving sentences at Salinas Valley State Prison in Central California are suspected of killing a fellow inmate during an attack Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdcr.ca.gov\/news\/2025\/10\/23\/salinas-valley-state-prison-officials-investigating-the-death-of-an-incarcerated-person-as-a-homicide-9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation<\/a>, prison staff in a recreation yard witnessed the attack, which took place shortly after 9:50 a.m. The victim, identified as Todd S. Morgan, was attacked by three inmates with what appeared to be improvised weapons.<\/p>\n<p>When responding personnel arrived, the inmates had stopped and staff began life-saving procedures. Morgan was pronounced deceased by prison medical staff at 10:04 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>No other inmates or prison staff were injured. Officers located three inmate-improvised weapons at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, a 57-year-old from Santa Clara County, had been in prison since May 2002. He was serving a sentence of life with the possibility of parole for second-degree burglary and second-degree robbery, along with weapons and drug offenses as a third striker.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/todd-morgan-cdcr-102425.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"todd-morgan-cdcr-102425.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Todd S. Morgan, an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison in Monterey County, was killed during an attack on Oct. 23, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>                California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation<\/p>\n<p>The three suspects, identified as 56-year-old Todd J. Givens, 61-year-old Robert England and 51-year-old Ray N. Waldron, were moved into restricted housing, CDCR officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Givens, from Tulare County, was sentenced to death in 2004 for the first-degree murders of Barry and Patreace Holstone in 1997. He was also suspected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sanfrancisco\/news\/condemn-killer-todd-givens-investigated-for-san-quentin-death-row-guard-attack\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a 2020 attack of a guard at San Quentin State Prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While incarcerated, Givens received two additional life sentences for possession \/ manufacture of a deadly weapon by an incarcerated person and assault.<\/p>\n<p>England, from San Bernardino County, has been imprisoned since 1993 and is serving a sentence for life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder. He received additional life sentences in 1998 and 1999 for assaults while in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Waldron, from San Diego County, has been imprisoned since 2005 and is serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, assault with a firearm and possession of firearm by an ex-felon, all as a third striker.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said Waldron received an additional life sentence after being convicted of attempted murder while in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, CDCR said an investigation by the prison&#8217;s Investigative Services Unit, the Monterey County District Attorney&#8217;s Office and Monterey County Coroner is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three convicted killers who are serving sentences at Salinas Valley State Prison in Central California are suspected of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,5607,9,8,134,17332,858,1331,18126],"class_list":["post-23044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-homicide","tag-inmate-death","tag-monterey-county","tag-murder","tag-salinas-valley-state-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}