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Roy Lewis Norris

72 years old · died February 24, 2020 · California Medical Facility, Solano County, California

Roy Lewis Norris, 72, died on February 24, 2020, at a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation hospital in Vacaville, California, where he had been transferred the week before from Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County. State corrections officials said he died of natural causes and announced his death the next day. Reports also noted that he died about two months after his former partner, Lawrence Bittaker, who died at San Quentin State Prison in December 2019.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness

Reported by: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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