2 inmates accused of fatal stabbing.
A 53-year-old Calipatria State Prison inmate was reportedly stabbed to death by two other inmates at 1:50 p.m. Friday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported.
Fred Archuleta, was allegedly attacked by two inmates who had used prison-manufactured weapons and had ignored the prison’s yard alarm ordering all inmates in the yard to stop and get down once the attack was underway, a CDCR press release stated.
Archuleta’s two assailants also allegedly ignored correctional officers’ commands to stop, resulting in one nonlethal 40-millimeter round being fired to help stop the attack, the press release stated. No staff members were injured in the attack.
Following the attack,
lifesaving medicalstaffon and measures.the triage Archuletawas scene prison’sbegantransported arrivedtreatmentto for was wounds treatmentsubsequently areaof staband pronounceddead p.m., at the 2:15 press stated.release The attackers, identified as Emilio Saldaña and Jose Bonilla, were not injured and have been placed in the prison’s Administrative Segregation Unit while the incident is being investigated.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Office of the Inspector General has also been notified of the incident. Inmate movement had been limited to facilitate the investigation. Saldaña was received into CDCR custody from San Bernardino County in 2015, to serve a sentence of 51 years to life with the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, the press release stated.
Bonilla was received into CDCR custody from Riverside County in 2013 to serve a sentence of life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, possession/ manufacture of a deadly weapon by a prisoner and first-degree robbery.
Archuleta was received into CDCR custody from San Bernardino County on Jan. 24, 2006, to serve a sentence of 65 years to life with the possibility of parole for conspiracy to commit a crime, possession of a firearm by an ex-felon and criminal gang activity.
Calipatria State Prison opened in 1992 and currently houses about 3,800 minimum- and maximum-security inmates. The prison offers academic classes and vocational programs and employs more than 1,000 people. For more information, visit www.cdcr.ca.gov