A person serving a life sentence for 2 murders died Monday after he was attacked by one other inmate at a state jail in Salinas, in accordance with state officers.
Michael Spengler, 38, was attacked Monday round 10:30 a.m. at Salinas Valley State Jail by Miguel Espino, 31, who allegedly used an “inmate-manufactured weapon,” in accordance with the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Spengler died about half-hour after the assault and Espino was positioned in restricted housing pending an investigation.
Spengler had been on the jail for 2 years after he was convicted in 2022 in Los Angeles Superior Court docket of two homicides. He killed one man in Pomona and one other in Altadena throughout the winter of 2013. A choose referred to as the killings “shock ambushes” of Spengler’s personal buddies.
“Each murders seem to have been shock ambushes of the defendant’s buddies,” Superior Court docket Choose Henry J. Corridor mentioned when he sentenced Spengler to life with out parole, in accordance with Metropolis Information Service. “They seem like largely mindless.”
Spengler confessed to the murders to a jailhouse informant, who was paid $20,000 in reward cash by the county for serving to to resolve the case.
Espino was convicted final yr of tried homicide after he severely beat his father with a rock and a hammer, then set fireplace to his cell house. He was additionally discovered responsible of arson for the 2018 assault.
Espino was equally convicted off his personal jailhouse feedback, after he spoke to his mom on recorded telephone calls concerning the assault.
