REPRESA — Five men — including an Oakland native who has already been implicated in three other killings — are suspected of killing a fellow inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento on Friday, authorities have announced.
The victim of the dayroom attack was Darryl Hudson a 40-year-old Pittsburg native who was serving a life sentence for murdering an editor of PC World Magazine during a home invasion robbery. State prison officials say Hudson was attacked by five men, lost consciousness during the attack, and later succumbed to his injuries. They haven’t said if a weapon was used or if the motive has been uncovered.
The attackers were identified in a news release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as Darryn Mayberry, 30, Robert Keller, 38,, Tray Watson, 58, Marcell Battiest, 29, and Otis Wyatt, 27. They’ve been placed in administrative segregation, authorities said.
Wyatt was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison earlier this year, after being convicted of second degree murder in the 2016 shooting death of Darrell Daniel. He also pleaded no contest to a single count of manslaughter in connection with a shooting at a 2016 birthday party in Oakland where 20-year-old Craig Fletcher-Cooks and 22-year-old Terrence McCrary were killed, for a 21-year concurrent term that was criticized by both victims’ family members.
Battiest and Keller were serving sentences for murder in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, respectively, and Watson was serving 18 years for robbery, authorities said.
Hudson was sentenced to life without parole in 2009 for murdering Rex Farrance, 59, a PC World editor who was targeted for having a personal marijuana grow, authorities said at the time. Four men burst into his home on Jan. 9, 2007. Police believed it was Hudson who personally killed Farrance, which he denied at his sentencing hearing.
“Honestly, they got the wrong person,” Hudson said in at the hearing’s end.
