BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — California prison officials said two inmates attacked and killed another inmate Wednesday afternoon at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said late Wednesday, the attack happened at around 1:41 p.m. and left Timothy Whelan, 56, an inmate serving a sentence for second-degree murder, dead.
CDCR officials said two inmates — identified as William A. Nesler III, 43, and Edward R. Holden III, 35 — allegedly attacked Whelan with “improvised weapons.”…