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| Calif. Man Stabbed in Prison Dies |
| By San Bernardino County Sun |
| Published: 07/02/2003 |
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A 28-year-old man died after being stabbed June 27 at the California Institution for Men, just one day after he was transferred into the prison from Riverside County. According to information from the San Bernardino County Coroner's office, the inmate called for help from an officer just before 8 p.m. and told him he'd been stabbed. The man was later identified as Karl Laurion, said Sgt. Arioma Sams, public information officer for the California Institution for Men. Laurion had been in the cell he shares with his cellmate just before he called for help from the officers, Sams said. The cellmate's name is not being released, nor was information immediately available on how long he had been incarcerated at Chino, Sams said. Emergency personnel took Laurion to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton where he was pronounced dead at 4:34 a.m. June 28. Sams said Laurion was transferred to the Chino prison from Riverside County on June 26. He didn't know if he was transferred from a detention facility in that area or if he had been incarcerated in Chino before. Laurion came in as a parole violator who was returned to custody, Sams said. He would not say whether the cellmate is the primary suspect in the stabbing. Laurion was stabbed once in the chest, Sams said, but investigators don't yet know what he was stabbed with. 'As far as we know, it was a prison-manufactured weapon,' Sams said. The coroner's office will conduct an autopsy to determine whether Laurion died from his stab wound or if he had a pre-existing medical condition which may have weakened him. 'We don't exactly know what the cause of death is,' Sams said. 'He could have had a prior medical condition,' which contributed to his death. Investigators have interviewed the unnamed cellmate, but Sams said he did not know what, if anything, they uncovered. Homicide detectives from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's department are assisting prison investigators in the matter, said Chip Patterson, public information officer for the department. |
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