A homicide investigation was launched early Saturday after a 66-year-old inmate was found dead in his cell at an Otay Mesa state prison, officials said.<\/p>\n
Hector Ozuna was found unresponsive at 6:07 a.m. Saturday inside his cell at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Ozuna\u2019s cellmate, 30-year-old Alexis Guerrero, was put into restricted housing pending an investigation by the facility\u2019s Investigative Services Unit and the San Diego County District Attorney\u2019s Office, the statement said.<\/p>\n
No manufactured weapons were found at the scene, the CDCR stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cStaff immediately responded and continued lifesaving measures on Ozuna as they transferred him to the prison\u2019s triage and treatment area,\u201d the statement said. Ozuna was pronounced dead shortly before 7 a.m.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Inspector General was notified, and the San Diego County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will determine Ozuna\u2019s cause of death.<\/p>\n
Ozuna was received from Riverside County on Feb. 17, 2023. He was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for assault with a deadly weapon \u2014 a third strike, which included a sentence-enhancement of a violent felony intended to inflict great bodily injury.<\/p>\n
Guerrero was received from San Bernardino County on June 13, 2024. He was sentenced to six years. It was unclear what crime or crimes he committed.<\/p>\n
At least two other inmates have been killed at the prison in recent years. In February 2024, 53-year-old Guy Perez was attacked and fatally stabbed by two other inmates. Last August, 43-year-old Jerry Elliott was allegedly killed by another inmate inside a cell the two men shared.<\/p>\n
Staff writer Alex Riggins contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation was launched early Saturday after a 66-year-old inmate was found dead in his cell at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[138,181,23,100,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-421966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421966","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=421966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}