By Darrell Smith
The Sacramento Bee
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento County inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison is one of three facing attempted homicide charges in an attack on a guard Thursday morning, said state corrections officials.
Officials at the North Coast prison say Richard Wilson, 32; Jose Gonzales, 38, of Los Angeles County; and Luis Torres, 34, of Los Angeles County, stabbed the guard with a manufactured weapon inside a prison dining hall about 7:15 a.m.
The guard, a supervising correctional officer, received puncture wounds and a laceration, as officers subdued the attack with pepper spray, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials said in a statement. The guard was taken to a hospital for treatment and observation.
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Wilson was sentenced in Sacramento Superior Court in 2015 to 14 years in prison on charges of driving under the influence causing injury with enhancements for a prior serious felony. While incarcerated, Wilson was sentenced to more time behind bars on a 2018 battery of a non-inmate and a 2021 charge of manufacturing a weapon, according to state corrections officials.
Gonzales, sentenced in 2008, and Torres, sentenced in 2014, each are serving life sentences with the possibility of parole on first-degree murder.
The three were transferred out of Pelican Bay to another facility to be placed in restrictive housing, officials said. Prison officials are investigating the incident and will refer the case to Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office for felony prosecution.
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