Charles Anthony Ross
Charles Ross, 63, died on May 30, 2019, after a fight in the exercise yard at California State Prison, Sacramento, in Folsom. The Corrections Department said he was stabbed with an inmate-made device around 2:15 p.m., and officers used pepper spray and a blast grenade to break up the fight. He was taken to the prison's Central Health Building, where lifesaving measures failed, and he was pronounced dead at 2:34 p.m. The department and the Sacramento County coroner's office are treating the death as a homicide, and the department has named two other men as suspects.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Sacramento County coroner's office and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation say he was stabbed with an inmate-made device by other incarcerated men during a yard fight, and the death is being investigated as a homicide.
Reported by: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the agency that held him); Sacramento County coroner's office (medical examiner or coroner).
News reports (5)
- Folsom prison inmate dies after fight; guards broke it up with pepper spray, grenade
- Inmate stabbed to death in yard fight at high-security prison in Folsom - San Diego Union-Tribune
- Suspect in Folsom inmate death serving life sentence for murder of Iraq War veteran
- Folsom prison inmate killed in fight last week identified by coroner
- Calif. prison inmate killed in fight