A 22-year-old rapper from Huntington Park was killed at Soledad State Prison in Salinas, officials said Wednesday.
Jaime Brugada Valdez, also known as MoneySign Suede, was fatally assaulted sometime between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Tuesday at the medium-security all-male facility, according to his attorney and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Valdez was signed to Atlantic Records. His lawyer Nicholas Rosenberg said the cause of death was from a stabbing.
The agency said in a statement that Valdez was missed during a head count of his housing unit, at which point a search was initiated, leading to his discovery “in the shower area with injuries consistent with a homicide.”
“Staff quickly initiated life-saving measures and summoned emergency services to transport Brugada to an on-site medical facility for treatment,” the CDCR stated.
Officials said he was pronounced dead at 10 p.m.
An investigation was immediately started by correctional personnel, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office, and the Monterey County Coroner’s Office.
“The coroner will determine Brugada’s official cause of death,” the CDCR said.
Officials said the convict was serving a two-year, eight-month sentence from Riverside County for being a two-strike felon possessing a firearm.
Soledad houses roughly 4,000 inmates and is staffed by 1,189 correctional personnel.
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