Two inmates serving life sentences have died after being attacked at California prisons, corrections officials said Wednesday.
Robert Tunstall, 64, died Wednesday morning after another inmate attacked him in the recreation yard at Salinas Valley State Prison, according to a statement from the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Life-saving measures failed and Tunstall was pronounced dead about a half-hour after the attack, authorities said. An inmate-made weapon was recovered and a suspect identified as Lawrence Adams, 42.
Tunstall was admitted to prison from Solano County in 1976, to serve life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, corrections officials said.
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