Victor Abraham Martinez Jr.
Victor Martinez, 32, died on June 7, 2018, in his two-person cell at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson, where he was held, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections. The department said he was found unresponsive on the floor of the cell around 6 a.m. and that paramedics pronounced him dead. The department said the death appears to be a homicide and that investigators had identified a suspect. In May 2021, a fellow prisoner, Richard Troy Wilson, admitted in court to killing him.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by another person in custody. The Arizona Department of Corrections says the death appears to be a homicide, and a fellow prisoner, Richard Troy Wilson, later admitted killing him in a guilty plea.
Reported by: Arizona Department of Corrections (the agency that held him); Richard Troy Wilson.