(Susanville, CA) – The California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation reports 25-year-old Brandon Martinez of Yuba County is suspected of murdering another inmate at High Desert State Prison in Susanville.

At approximately 6:40 last Saturday evening, staff saw Martinez and another inmate assaulting an inmate on the “C Yard,” responded “and quelled the incident.”

Life-saving measures were unsuccessful.

Martinez and the other inmate have now been placed in restrictive housing.

Martinez was sentenced to High Desert State Prison from Yuba County for 18 years, 8 months, on April 18th, 2016 on a count of assault likely to produce great bodily injury, a count of 2nd degree robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.