Officials at High Desert State Prison and the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the death of an incarcerated person as a homicide after he was attacked by two other inmates on Friday, February 18th.
Shortly after 11:00a.m., according to the report, HDSP staff saw Christopher Dolan and Michael Ellison attack Michael Hastey with manufactured weapons on one of the institution’s exercise yards.
Officers immediately responded by using chemical agents and batons to quell the incident.
Responding staff transported Hastey to the prison medical facility where health care staff performed life-saving measures. He was pronounced dead at 12:05p.m.
Hastey, 19, was sentenced to state prison from Trinity County on June 14, 2021, to serve a life with parole sentence for first-degree murder.
The Lassen County Sherriff’s Office and the HDSP Investigative Services Unit are investigating the incident. The Office of the Inspector General has been notified.