ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon prison inmate has been charged with aggravated murder in the death of another inmate.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports (https://is.gd/GSRG2e) that 37-year-old Michael Lay is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 17 in Malheur County, where the Snake River Correctional Institution is based.
He’s accused of killing 22-year-old Michael Teves in February. The cause of death has not been disclosed.
Lay was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison in November 2008 for a gunpoint robbery at a Portland restaurant and later attacking a Multnomah County jail deputy.
Teves was convicted of second-degree assault in Lane County in 2014. His earliest release date was Dec. 9.
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Information from: The Oregonian/OregonLive, https://www.oregonlive.com
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