BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Prison officials said an inmate was attacked and killed Friday allegedly by two other inmates at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said inmates Raymond Rojas, 25 and Tyler Ostertag, 29, are accused of attacking Johnny Victor, 66, with a makeshift weapon at around 10:43 a.m. Friday. Staff at the prison were able to stop the attack and restrained Rojas and Ostertag.
Victor was treated for injuries at a facility at the prison and was later pronounced dead.
Victor’s death is being investigated as a homicide by investigators at the prison and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office.
The Kern County Coroner will determine an official cause and manner of death.
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Victor was serving a sentence of life with the possibility of parole for attempted second-degree murder. He had been incarcerated since 1987.
Rojas is serving a sentence of life with the possibility of parole since 2022 for multiple convictions including discharge of a weapon causing great bodily injury or death, weapons possession, second-degree robbery.