California prison inmate dies after attack in recreation yard, New Folsom officials say
The stabbing death of a California State Prison, Sacramento, inmate Saturday afternoon by two other inmates was being investigated as a homicide Sunday, corrections officials said.
Nathan Marcus, 33, was in one of the recreation yards at the high-security facility known as New Folsom about 2:12 p.m., when he was jumped by two men — Tyler Yates, 27; and Gregory Roach, 33 — California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said in a news release Sunday.
Corrections officers used chemical agents to break up the violent scrum and tried to revive Marcus, according to the release, before he was pronounced dead at 2:38 p.m. Saturday.
Yates is serving an eight-year sentence out of San Diego County for first-degree burglary and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury as a second-strike offender.
Roach, also out of San Diego County, is serving a 12-year sentence for assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury as a second-strike offender; and inflicting great bodily injury. Both are now in the prison’s administrative segregation unit pending the results of an investigation.
Marcus was originally sentenced in 2013 in San Joaquin County to four years in state prison for attempting to evade a peace officer while driving recklessly as a second-strike offender; and possession of a controlled substance for sale as a second-strike offender.
He was sentenced a second time while in prison in Kings County in 2016 to six years for possessing or manufacturing a deadly weapon while a prisoner and second-strike offender.
This story was originally published March 27, 2022 at 2:29 PM.
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