Edgar Delgado
Edgar Delgado, 39, died on May 3, 2022, after another man attacked him with a weapon in a maximum-security exercise yard at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, Monterey County, California. He was taken to the prison's medical unit and pronounced dead around 7 p.m. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says the death is being treated as a homicide, and the Monterey County District Attorney's Office and the prison's investigative unit are looking into it. Accounts differ on the kind of weapon used, and the other man's name has not been released.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. Prison officials say another incarcerated man attacked Delgado with a manufactured or homemade weapon in the yard and that officers used chemical agents to stop it; the death is being investigated as a homicide.
Reported by: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the agency that held him); prison officials; Monterey County District Attorney's Office (outside investigators).