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| Slain prison inmate killed Mill Valley good Samaritan in 1983 |
| By sfgate.com- Kale Williams |
| Published: 02/19/2016 |
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The inmate killed in his cell at a Sacramento-area prison this week was identified by officials Thursday as 53-year-old Darryl Staples, who was serving a life sentence for beating a Mill Valley man to death with a fire extinguisher in 1983 after the victim let him stay at his home. Around 8:20 p.m. on Monday, officers found Staples unresponsive in his cell at the California State Prison-Sacramento facility in Represa, just north of Folsom (Sacramento County), said Lt. Tony Quinn, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Staples had been incarcerated since 1983 when he pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of Edward Lewis, a 76-year-old retired hardware salesman, who was found bludgeoned in the bedroom of his home on Meadow Road. Lewis had a penchant for taking in strangers after his wife died a few years earlier and “had befriended a number of people by making a room available,” Mill Valley police Capt. Peter Grindley told The Chronicle shortly after Lewis’ death. Read More. |
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