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FOLSOM, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\nState prison inmate dies in attack in Sacramento County, officials say<\/p>\n
FOLSOM, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n
Investigators are looking into the second homicide in a week at California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Prison staff were not injured. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
An improvised weapon was found at the scene, CDCR said. <\/p>\n
Aguilar was received from Los Angeles County on Oct. 26, 2006 and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, CDCR said. <\/p>\n
Madrigal was received from Tulare County on June 9, 2022, after being sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder. <\/p>\n
The deadly attack is the second homicide investigation at the prison in the past week. On Aug. 11, Walter Badelle was found unconscious<\/a> by staff in his prison cell. <\/p>\n Badelle was later pronounced dead by outside ambulance staff. <\/p>\n His cellmate, Jonathan Blackwell, was placed in handcuffs and placed in restricted housing. <\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State prison inmate dies in attack in Sacramento County, officials say FOLSOM, Calif. \u2014 Investigators are looking into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[100135,599,1794,5607,25089,26186,173452,26177,21035,6600,62291,22976,173451,17332,173455,173453,173456,2530,137,98057,3335,8948,32914,2901,173454,121,357,2902,123,122,5560,35387,173457,173458,8412,173459],"class_list":["post-437090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-aguilar","tag-area","tag-attack","tag-california-department-of-corrections-and-rehabilitation","tag-california-state-prison","tag-cdcr","tag-danny-aguilar","tag-fields","tag-folsom","tag-homicide-investigation","tag-improvised-weapon","tag-inmate","tag-inmate-attack","tag-inmate-death","tag-investigative-services-unit","tag-julio-caesar-madrigal","tag-less-lethal-rounds","tag-life-without-parole","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-madrigal","tag-official","tag-parole","tag-possibility","tag-prison","tag-restricted-housing","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-county-district-attorney","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-staff","tag-state-prison","tag-state-prison-inmate","tag-state-prison-staff","tag-tulare-county","tag-walter-badelle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437090","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=437090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}