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Officials are investigating a murder after an incarcerated man, who was acquired from Riverside County, died at a San Quentin jail Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 17.
Prison workers responded to an alarm at 3:30 p.m. and went to a cell on the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, the place they discovered 70-year-old Mark Squires unresponsive and referred to as for medical help and first responders, based on a information launch from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Staff began life-saving measures and continued remedy on the jail’s triage and remedy middle. Medical workers from an outdoor facility pronounced Squires dead at 4:04 p.m. Officials are investigating his loss of life as a murder.
The suspect, Squires’ cellmate, Gustavo Lopez, was positioned in restricted housing pending investigation by the jail and the Marin County District Attorney’s Office. The county coroner will decide Squires’ explanation for loss of life.
Squires was acquired by the jail system in January 2000 from Riverside County. He was sentenced to life with the potential of parole for lewd or lascivious acts with a toddler beneath 14 with power or violence and failure to register a selected intercourse offense, the CDCR information launch stated.
Lopez, 36, arrived on the jail from Riverside County in January 2020 to serve 13 years and 4 months for second-strike offenses for kidnapping, corporal damage leading to traumatic situation and false imprisonment with violence, the discharge stated.
