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Ex-NFL player Lawrence Phillips suspected of killing cellmate
By 10news.com
Published: 04/14/2015

Two prison inmates with Los Angeles ties -- including a one-time professional football player -- are suspected in separate homicides over the weekend at the Bakersfield-area penitentiary where they were sent to serve lengthy sentences, authorities reported today.

Former Miami Dolphins and San Francisco 49ers running back Lawrence Phillips is accused of killing his cellmate, 37-year-old Damion Soward, who was found unconscious at Kern Valley State Prison about 12:45 a.m. Saturday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Soward, who was serving a term of 82 years to life for first-degree murder, died at a hospital early Sunday evening, CDCR Lt. Marshall Denning said.

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