California prison murder victim had been incarcerated for 1976 Fairfield murder given that age 18

SOLEDAD — A 64-yr-aged person was stabbed to death Wednesday on a recreation lawn at Salinas Valley Point out Prison, authorities claimed.

The sufferer, determined as Robert Tunstall, is a Solano County indigenous who expended nearly his overall grownup lifestyle powering bars. He was arrested in 1976 on suspicion of murdering one Vallejo girl and non-fatally capturing a next all through a purse robbery in Fairfield.

According to media reports at the time, Tunstall, 18 at the time, and a 17-year-outdated boy, ended up arrested in July 1976 on suspicion of murdering Annie Lou Barnes, 61, and shooting a 44-year-old female in the neck, shoulder, and hip. Tunstall’s co-defendant, David Day, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in jail.

Both of those victims had been fishing when they had been shot with a higher-run searching rifle, law enforcement said at the time. The motive was robbery.

Tunstall died Wednesday early morning following being stabbed with an “inmate-built weapon,” jail officials stated in a news release. The suspect is 42-year-old Lawrence Adams, sentenced to lifetime in Tuolumne County in 2007 for arson with arson of house, possession of an explosive machine in a public area and vandalism, beneath the California 3 Strikes legislation.

Authorities have not released a motive, but say they will existing a circumstance to the Monterey County District Lawyer for prosecution. Prison officers did not reveal which recreation lawn the stabbing happened on, nor exactly where the inmates ended up housed.