{"id":37770,"date":"2013-06-03T15:21:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=37770"},"modified":"2015-01-14T20:04:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T04:04:08","slug":"suspect-idd-in-homicide-at-state-prison-in-lancaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/06\/03\/suspect-idd-in-homicide-at-state-prison-in-lancaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect ID\u2019d in homicide at State Prison in Lancaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2013 A 48-year-old inmate was found dead at the California State Prison in Lancaster last week, and a 36-year-old inmate serving time for rape has been named as the suspected killer, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Inmate <strong>Victor Earl Jones<\/strong> was found unresponsive in a housing unit dayroom floor on Friday, May 31, and he was pronounced dead at about 5:14 p.m., according to a press report by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).<\/p>\n<p>Prison officials initially believed that Jones died of natural causes, but a subsequent investigation indicated that Jones was the victim of a battery, the press report states.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s homicide detectives on Friday responded to the prison, at 44750 60th Street West in Lancaster, to investigate the circumstances surrounding Jones\u2019 death, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Prison officials have now named inmate <strong>Andre Rutledge<\/strong> as a suspect in the case.\u00a0 Rutledge, 36, was received from Alameda County for rape, with an estimated parole release date of September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Rutledge has been placed in the Administrative Segregation Unit at the institution, pending completion of the investigation, according to the CDCR press report.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was received by CDCR on February 28, 1997, from Riverside County. He was serving 30 years to life for first-degree robbery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2013 A 48-year-old inmate was found dead at the California State Prison in Lancaster last week, and a 36-year-old inmate serving time for rape has been named as the suspected killer, authorities said. Inmate Victor Earl Jones was found unresponsive in a housing unit dayroom floor on Friday, May 31, and he was pronounced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}