A San Diego inmate is accused of attacking and killing a fellow prisoner Sunday in a Sacramento prison, state corrections officials said.
Tyler Yates, 30, and Jake Kennedy, 32, are accused of using improvised weapons to attack 39-year-old Jonathan Rude in the main exercise yard around 1:20 p.m. at California State Prison, officials said in a news release.
To disperse the inmates around the fight, corrections officers fired a warning shot, officials said. Officers began performing life-saving measures on Rude, and 911 was called.
A paramedic pronounced Rude dead about 20 minutes later.
No other injuries were reported, and officials reported having limited movement in the yard when the attack occurred, investigators said.
Yates and Kennedy were moved to a restricted housing unit pending the investigation.
No other information was immediately available.
Rude was received from Butte County late last year and was serving four years for vehicle theft with prior vehicle-related theft convictions.
Yates had been sent to prison in October 2017 from San Diego County to serve eight years for first-degree burglary and assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury as a second striker. Last year, he was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder as a second striker, an in-prison offense.
Kennedy was most recently received from San Bernardino County in February 2020 to serve six years for carrying a concealed dirk or dagger as a second striker. Three years later, he was sentenced for assault as a second striker.
