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| Shooting Death of Inmate Investigated |
| By Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 10/27/2003 |
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In the days after an officer shot and killed an inmate at California's Pleasant Valley State Prison last week, corrections staff said a "major riot" involving 300 prisoners had led to the shooting. The use of deadly force, they said, stopped one particularly savage brawl that threatened the life of an inmate. But prison videotapes and eyewitness accounts detail a far smaller incident involving about 50 inmates in the recreation yard where the deadly shot rang out, according to Fresno County sheriff's investigators. No inmate in the yard carried a weapon or caused serious injury to another inmate, corrections officials now acknowledge. The inmate whose life was said to have been in danger walked away from the fight with bruises on his face, corrections officials said. Likewise, no officer faced imminent peril. Two teams of investigators - one from the sheriff's office and one from the state Department of Corrections - are now probing the Oct. 12 incident, only the second fatal shooting at a California prison since deadly force guidelines were tightened in 1999. |
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