Global Courant 2023-04-27 22:38:52
A California correctional training facility has announced that officials are now investigating the death of an incarcerated up-and-coming Los Angeles rapper as homicide.
At about 9:55 p.m. Tuesday, correctional officers at the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) in Soledad, California, responded when Jaime Brugada was not accounted for in his cell after a regular institutional count, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement Wednesday.
During a search of his home, he was found unconscious in another part of the housing unit “with injuries consistent with murder,” the statement said.
KESQ reported that Brugada, a Los Angeles-based rapper serving time after being convicted of gun possession, was found in the shower room.
MARINE LANCE CORPORAL REPORTED KILLED BY DISCHARGE OF A GUN INTO TRUCK IN CALIFORNIA
Jaime Brugada was killed at the Correctional Training Facility (CTF) in Soledad, California, corrections officials said. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
His attorney, Nicholas Rosenberg, told the Los Angeles Times he was told Braguda had been stabbed in the neck.
Also known as MoneySign Suede, Brugada was an up and coming rapper originally from Huntington Park in the Los Angeles area. His YouTube video for the song “Back to The Bag” has been viewed more than 7.1 million times since it was first posted two years ago.
The Department of Corrections said staff quickly took life-saving measures and called emergency services to transport Brugada to an on-site medical facility for treatment, where he was pronounced dead at 10 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO MURDER homicides RISE 83% THROUGH MARCH, POLICE STATISTICS SHOW
An aerial view of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California. Jaime Brugada’s death there is being investigated as a homicide. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Officials have limited freedom of movement within the facility to facilitate investigations conducted by the CTF Investigative Services Unit, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office and the Monterey County Coroner. The Inspector General’s Office has been notified and the Monterey County Coroner will determine Brugada’s official cause of death.
Brugada, 22, was sentenced on December 22, 2022 by Riverside County to two years and eight months in prison for possession/possession of a firearm by a felon or addict as a second striker and one year and four months in prison for possession/ possess firearm with a conviction for a violent crime, which must be served concurrently with the first conviction, the correctional department said.
“An investigation is underway, but at this time the motive remains unknown,” Rosenberg told NBC News. “Suede was a very popular man, very gentle. Everyone loved him.”
Jaime Brugada was allegedly murdered in the showers of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, California. (LEA SUZUKI/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Suede signed with Atlantic Records in 2021 and released his most recent album “Parkside Baby” last September, according to the Times.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
CTF houses minimum and medium weight male inmates. Opened in 1947 in Monterey County, the prison houses more than 4,000 inmates and employs 1,189 staff.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
