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| St. George man's prison death leads to murder charge |
| By thespectrum.com- Kevin Jenkins |
| Published: 01/23/2017 |
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A Salt Lake City area man has been charged with aggravated murder in the August death of a St. George resident at the Utah state prison. Julio Cesar Garza, 26, is being held on $500,000 cash-only bail at Utah’s Gunnison facility while he continues serving a sentence for armed robbery in a November 2009 carjacking incident. He is accused of killing his cellmate, Carlos-Adrian Javier Hernandez, in an attack less than 24 hours after the two were put in the same unit together. Hernandez, 24, was serving a 15 years-to-life sentence, plus five years, for strangling his 15-year-old neighbor during a rape at Dixie Downs Park in January 2007, when Hernandez was 14 years old. At the time of his sentencing the next year, Hernandez was the youngest inmate in the Utah prison system and he remained so until he was 19. Read More. |
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