REPRESA – Five men – including an Oakland man already involved in three other murders – are suspected of killing a fellow inmate at California State Prison in Sacramento on Friday, authorities said.
The victim of the day room attack was Darryl Hudson, a 40-year-old Pittsburgh native serving a life sentence for murdering a PC World magazine editor during a robbery. State prison officials say Hudson was attacked by five men, lost consciousness in the course of the attack and later succumbed to his injuries. They haven’t said whether a weapon was used or if the motive has been revealed.
The attackers were identified in a press release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as Darryn Mayberry (30), Robert Keller (38), Tray Watson (58), Marcell Battiest (29) and Otis Wyatt (27). They were placed in solitary confinement, authorities said.
Wyatt was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison earlier this yr after being convicted of the premeditated murder of Darrell Daniel in 2016. He also pleaded guilty to a single count of manslaughter in reference to a 2016 Oakland celebration shooting that killed 20-year-old Craig Fletcher-Cooks and 22-year-old Terrence McCrary, a 21-year sentence that drew criticism from families of each victims.
Battiest and Keller were serving prison sentences for murder in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, and Watson was serving an 18-year sentence for robbery, authorities said.
Hudson was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2009 for the murder of Rex Farrance, 59. Farrance was a PC World editor who had been targeted for his home marijuana cultivation, authorities said on the time. On Jan. 9, 2007, 4 men broke into his home. Police believed Hudson personally killed Farrance, but he denied this at his sentencing.
“Frankly, they got the wrong person,” Hudson said at the top of the hearing.
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