FOLSOM, Calif. — An inmate at California State Prison, Sacramento died after being restrained, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a release Tuesday.
Staff responded to a housing unit Friday around 6:55 p.m. for a disturbance. The CDCR said Christopher Leong charged and hit staff.
Officers put him in physical restraints while he kept lashing out and spitting at officers. The officers pinned him to the ground. Leong lost consciousness and stopped breathing. He was pronounced dead at 7:50 p.m.
The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office is investigating his death along with the prison's Investigative Services Unit and the CDCR’s Deadly Force Investigative Team.
The CDCR said 10 staff members had minor injuries.
Christopher Leong was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole for second-degree attempted murder with a street gang act in the commission of a violent felony and discharging a firearm in an occupied space, according to the CDCR. He was moved to the prison from Sacramento County in June 2011.
California State Prison, Sacramento is a high-security prison located in Folsom.
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