COALINGA, Calif. (AP) — Paul Flores, the convicted killer of college student Kristin Smart, was stabbed Wednesday at a California jail, the second time he has been attacked by a fellow inmate prior to now 12 months, officers stated.
Workers witnessed the stabbing shortly earlier than 3:30 p.m. within the recreation yard at Nice Valley State Jail and have been in a position to finish the assault utilizing verbal instructions, based on a press release from the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
An injured Flores, 47, was transported to an out of doors medical facility for therapy and later returned to the jail in truthful situation, officers stated.
The inmate suspected within the assault, whose title was not launched, was positioned in restricted housing, the corrections division stated. The assault is being investigated as an tried murder.
Two suspected inmate-manufactured weapons have been recovered, the division stated. No different employees or incarcerated folks have been injured.
Flores was slashed within the neck in August by one other inmate within the yard of the identical jail in Coalinga in central California. Flores was hospitalized and returned to the jail two days later.
The person accused in that assault, Jason Budrow, has pleaded not responsible to felony costs together with tried homicide and assault by an inmate serving a life sentence.
Authorities did not point out potential motives for both assault.
Flores is serving a sentence of 25 years to life for the homicide of Good, a 19-year-old who disappeared from California Polytechnic State College in San Luis Obispo over Memorial Day weekend in 1996.
Prosecutors maintained Flores killed Good throughout an tried rape in his dorm room on the college, the place each have been first-year college students. He was the final particular person seen with Good as he walked her residence from an off-campus celebration. Her physique was by no means discovered.
Flores was arrested in 2021, convicted in 2022 and sentenced final 12 months.
