A Arizona prisoner who attended 16 life sentences killed three other inmates in a state prison in Tucson, according to officials.
Ricky Wassenaar is accused of killing Saul Alvarez, Thorne Harnage and Donald Lashley Duration the altercation on Friday in the Cimmaron Unit of Arizona’s state prison, according to Kold.
Wassenaar is the only suspect in the incident, The Outlet reported.
Prison officials say he acted with “intention of damaging.”
Álvarez was behind bars for a murder in Maricopa County, Harnage was sentenced in Pima County for sexual behavior with a minor and Lashley served a sentence for child abuse in Pima County.
Wassenaar was already serving 16 perpetual chains for his role in a confrontation of the prison in 2004, according to Kold.
He already had a criminal record before confrontation.
He and another man were convicted of taking two guards as hostages for 15 days in Lewis Prison Complex in Buckeye, Arizona.
It was one of the longest prison hostages in the history of the United States.
Wasenaar supposedly used the uniform of a kitchen guard to deceive another guard to let him enter a prison surveillance tower.
He obtained the uniform dominating an officer with a handmade weapon.
The Arizona Corrections Department said Wassenaar was transferred to a prison in Florence after Friday’s inmate deaths.
The incident remains under investigation.
“The Office of the Inspector General of ADCRR has begun an initial criminal investigation related to the deaths of the inmate,” prison officials said in a statement.
“All internal deaths are invested in consultation with the office of the Forensic Medical of the County. The AGRR takes the situations that involve violence and will continue to prosecute against any suspect that is believed to be involved in the case.”
The visits in the prison were canceled for the rest of the day on Friday after the altercation.
