The victim had all of his abdominal and most of his chest organs removed before he was placed inside a trash can in order to hide the body.
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The Associated Press reports that the gruesome murder took place at California State Prison Solano, located in Vacaville, outside the California state capital of Sacramento.
Among other things, it is unknown how a prisoner could obtain the specific weapons necessary to disembowel a body.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Solano County coroner’s and District Attorney’s offices are investigating the death, Thornton said.
An inmate in a California prison was reportedly sawed nearly in two and dumped in a nearby bathroom garbage can following a prison riot.
Nicholas Anthony Rodriguez, who disappeared during a riot in a Northern California prison in May.
The 24-year-old had actually been killed and his body packed into a rubbish can in a shower stall not far from his cell, according to reports.
The Associated Press obtained the report under a public records request, and the horrific May death raises obvious questions about how such a crime could be committed behind bars and why it took so long to uncover.
Officials are trying to piece together the murder, wondering how it could happen in a closed facility under so much surveillance. However, Thornton said his cellmate, a 46-year-old man serving a life sentence for a Los Angeles County murder, is considered the only suspect and is being held in segregation. She told the paper that the two events were “linked”, but she declined to give details.
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“It’s very hard to cover every contingency with the limited staff that we have”, said Chuck Alexander, president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association that represents most prison guards. “They are going to find ways to do that”. As such, he ominously deemed the Solano incident as “just a precursor”.
