(KRON) — The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced its conviction of a 42-year-old Salinas Valley State Prison inmate for attempted murder on other prisoners and a correctional officer.
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The D.A.’s office said Michael Ellison, of Riverside, CA was convicted by a jury of “first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder of a peace officer, and first-degree attempted murder.”
Ellison was also convicted of “three counts of assault by life prisoner.”
Authorities said Ellison had a string of violent incidents while incarcerated. The D.A. said Ellison fatally stabbed a fellow inmate on the yard at Salinas Valley State Prison back on April 8, 2018. On July 26, 2019, Ellison, while placed in solitary confinement at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, stabbed a correctional officer several times…