{"id":91010,"date":"2020-01-02T18:16:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=91010"},"modified":"2020-01-02T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:17:13","slug":"convicted-murderer-from-l-a-county-dies-in-possible-prison-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/01\/02\/convicted-murderer-from-l-a-county-dies-in-possible-prison-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted murderer from L.A. County dies in possible prison homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78467\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Death-investigation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; A man who was convicted in Los Angeles County of murder died Thursday after being found unresponsive in his state prison cell, and authorities have identified his cellmate as a suspect in the death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lawrence Tate<\/strong>, 63, was pronounced dead at a medical center shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, about three hours after he was found unresponsive in his cell in North Kern State Prison&#8217;s Facility B in Delano, according to a statement released by prison officials.<\/p>\n<p>Tate had been in state prison since November 2001 and was serving a potential life prison term for second-degree murder, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>His cellmate, <strong>Willie Clay<\/strong>, 30, was identified by North Kern State Prison officials as a suspect, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Clay had been transferred last month to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from Riverside County, where he was sentenced to a 14-year prison term after being convicted of attempted murder as a second- strike defendant, according to prison officials.<\/p>\n<p>Tate&#8217;s death is being investigated by the prison&#8217;s Investigative Services Unit and the Kern County Coroner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not release the cause of Tate&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; A man who was convicted in Los Angeles County of murder died Thursday after being found unresponsive in his state prison cell, and authorities have identified his cellmate as a suspect in the death. Lawrence Tate, 63, was pronounced dead at a medical center shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 2, about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":78467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[719,1499],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91010"}],"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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}