An inmate who was learning to fight California’s wildfires was killed by a guard Sunday during a riot at the prison where he was being trained, officials said this week.
Jonathan Velarde, 23, was in the thick of a 45-person riot that broke out in the mess hall at California Correctional Center-Susanville, officials said. Velarde stabbed other inmates and was himself stabbed, officials said. A guard fatally shot him with a rifle.
The riot and Velarde’s death indicate that the problems of gang violence and overcrowding in California’s prisons, which have been mounting in recent weeks, extend to low and medium-security facilities, such as CCC-Susanville, where firefighters are housed and trained.
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