CA Prison Inmate From Rohnert Park Suspected In Fellow Inmate's Death | Rohnert Park, CA Patch

2022-10-10 05:55:38 By : Ms. Gao Aria

FOLSOM, CA — A state prison inmate from Rohnert Park is among two people suspected in a homicide at California State Prison Sacramento in Folsom, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

Around 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, two incarcerated men attacked fellow inmate Felipe Rodriguez with an inmate-made weapon on a maximum-security general population yard, state prison officials said in a news release.

An ambulance was summoned; however, a paramedic pronounced Rodriguez dead at 3:23 p.m. The Sacramento County Coroner will determine Rodriguez’s official cause of death.

Correctional officers recovered two inmate-made weapons and investigators identified two suspects, Selso Orozco Jr. and Mike Calderon, prison officials said.

Orozco, 41, was admitted from Sonoma County on Oct. 15, 2019, to serve 23 years for first-degree robbery with the use of a firearm, second-degree robbery with the use of a firearm, abusing/endangering the health of a child with an enhancement for use of a firearm, possessing/owning a firearm by a felon or addict, and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person.

Orozco pleaded no contest in April 2019 to four counts of armed robbery that he committed over a three-day period in October 2018 while disguised with a mask and armed with a loaded semi-automatic handgun. According to the prosecution, Orozco robbed: a man of his cell phone and money while the victim was eating dinner in his car in Santa Rosa; cash from a man who'd just withdrawn money from an ATM machine in Santa Rosa; cellphones and money from a family of four at Northgate Mall in San Rafael; and a young couple walking on a sidewalk near downtown San Rafael.

As for Calderon, 36, he was admitted from Los Angeles County on Dec. 2, 2016, to serve life without parole for first-degree murder and enhancements for the intentional discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury/death and personal use of a dangerous or deadly weapon.

Rodriguez, the victim, was 36 years old and was admitted from San Bernardino County on Oct. 14, 2015, to serve nine years for carjacking. While incarcerated, he was sentenced in Los Angeles County on March 9, 2018, to serve life with the possibility of parole for attempted first-degree murder with enhancements for the intentional discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury/death, use of a firearm and discharge of a firearm. On May 29, 2019, Rodriguez received a life-without-parole sentence from Los Angeles County for kidnap for ransom/extortion where the victim was killed. He also received life sentences for mayhem, extortion by means of force/threats with enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury.

According to CDCR, CSP-SAC was activated in 1986 and is a high-security prison in Folsom that houses 1,940 incarcerated people and employs about 1,700 people. The institution houses those serving long-term sentences, those requiring specialized mental health programming, and incarcerated people with high-risk medical concerns. The institution also provides work, career technical education, academic, self-help, art, religious and other rehabilitative programs.

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