Novvember 8, 2024 - VACAVILLE – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the Nov. 6, 2024, death of an incarcerated person at California State Prison, Solano (SOL) as a homicide.

At 8:09 p.m., officers were conducting security rounds when they found incarcerated person Darian L. Hernandez unresponsive in his cell. Officers immediately initiated life-saving measures and activated 911. Emergency medical personnel arrived on the scene and continued administering lifesaving measures. Hernandez was pronounced deceased at 8:52 p.m.

Another incarcerated person, Jonathan M. Perez, who was housed in the same cell, was removed and placed in restricted housing pending an investigation by the SOL Investigative Services Unit and the Solano County District Attorney’s Office.

The Office of the Inspector General has been notified, and the Solano County Coroner will determine Hernandez’s official cause of death.

Hernandez, 25, was received from Monterey County on February 13, 2018, to serve 12 years, four months for assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury as a part of a street gang act, carrying a loaded firearm in public with a prior felony conviction, and assault with a firearm conspiracy as a part of a street gang act in commission of serious felony. He received an additional four-year sentence on May 12, 2021, for an in-prison offense of an assault with a deadly weapon or force likely to inflict great bodily injury.

Perez, 23, was received from Ventura County on January 27, 2021, to serve a 15-year sentence for assault with a semiautomatic weapon and the use of a firearm to inflict great bodily injury.

SOL, which opened in 1984, houses more than 3,800 minimum-, medium- and maximum-security incarcerated people. The prison, located in Solano County, provides educational, medical and mental health services.


Source: CDCR