Arizona prisoner serving 16 life sentences accused of killing 3 fellow inmates

An Arizona prisoner serving life sentences killed three other inmates at a state prison in Tucson according to administrators Ricky Wassenaar is accused of killing Saul Alvarez Thorne Harnage and Donald Lashley during the altercation on Friday at the Arizona State Prison Cimmaron Unit according to KOLD Wassenaar is the only suspect in the case the outlet announced Prison bureaucrats say he acted with intent to harm 'WHERE IS HE ' ARIZONA YOGA INSTRUCTOR VANISHES AFTER GOING ON BLIND DATEAlvarez was behind bars for a Maricopa County murder Harnage was convicted in Pima County of sexual conduct with a minor and Lashley was serving a sentence for child molestation in Pima County Wassenaar was already serving life sentences for his role in a prison standoff in according to KOLD He already had a criminal history before the standoff He and another man were convicted of taking two guards hostage for days at Lewis Prison Complex in Buckeye Arizona It was one of the longest prison hostage situations in U S history Wassenaar allegedly used a kitchen guard s uniform to trick another guard into letting him into a prison watchtower He obtained the uniform by overpowering an officer with a handmade weapon The Arizona Department of Corrections declared Wassenaar was moved to a prison in Florence after Friday s inmate deaths The circumstance remains under analysis ARIZONA EXECUTES AARON GUNCHES FIRST EXECUTION IN A DEM-RUN STATE SINCE ADCRR's Office of the Inspector General has begun an initial criminal examination related to the inmate's deaths prison authorities declared in a report All inmate deaths are investigated in consultation with the county curative examiner's office The ADCRR takes situations involving violence seriously and will pursue prosecution against any persons of interest held to be involved in the development Visitations at the prison were canceled for the rest of the day on Friday following the altercation