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El Paso Times from El Paso, Texas • 19

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Pige 3-B, THE EL PASO TIMES. Thursday, October 29, 1331 Penitentiary of New Mexico murder case Guards testify inmate stabbed guard during scuffle the tier just before the disturbance broke out. Bobby Garcia was a porter on the north side of the tier and Trujillo had just been released from his cell to take a shower, Hecker said. Hccker said that Richard Garcia approached Jewett, the officer in charge of the cellblock. and asked to be admitted to the north side to return some books and pick up his radio.

Hecker said Jewett admitted Richard Garcia to the north side. "1 then heard Officer Jewett say. 'You guys step and heard a commotion in the tw'h sidr Hecker said. Hwker said he went to the grille entry to the north side and sew Bobby Garcia running toward him, "with Hecker said, and Jewett jumped on Trujillo's back. "Ricky Garcia took a couple of steps back.

He looked at Officer Jewett's back and shanked him in the side," Hecker said. Then Bobby Garcia fed from the corner, across the guard station to the head of a stairway leading to the basement tier of the cellblock. Hecker said he and officer Stephen Zolecki then fled into the north side of the tier, and he called for Jewett to join them. But Jewett fell to the floor, Hecker said. Hecker said Richard Garcia and Trujillo then told the officer in the control cage above the guard station to open the grille to the south side "or they would mess up Officer Jewett.

"Then help arrived," Hecker said. Hecker said he heard Richard Garcia and Trujillo tell Capt Joe Baca, "We didn't mean to get the officer. He just got in the way." Baca was the shift captain in charge at the penitentiary on the night of Feb. 26 and came to Cellblock 3 shortly after being notified of trouble in the unit. The testimony of Zolecki, who said he had been a prison guard only two weeks before the Feb.

26 events, corroborated Hccker's testimony. Zolecki said he heard Richard Garcia sir iftcr Eaca and ether officers arrived at Cellblock 3 that "if anything happened, he would kill another officer." blood running down his face." An attempt was made to shut the grille, but it bounced open when it was slammed. Bobby Garcia ran into the guard area and was followed by Richard Garcia and Trujillo, who were armed with prison-made knives or shanks, Hecker said. Jewett pursued the inmates into the guard area, he said. Hecker said Bobby Garcia fled to a corner of the guard station, next to the grille leading into the south side of the tier.

The officer said Bobby Garcia picked up a plastic trash can in the euad station and was a'temptin to ward off the attack against him. Both Trujillo and Richard Garcia were stabbing at Bobby Garcia, SANTA FE (AP) Three penitentiary guards on duty in Cellblock 3 the night of Feb. 26, 1981, told a district court jury Wednesday they saw inmate Richard Garcia stab correctional officer Lewis Jewett. The state then rested its case in Garcia's first-degree murder trial. District Judge Michael Francke recessed court until 9 a.m.

Thursday, at which time he will hear interim arguments. The defense is scheduled to begin its case Thursday. Richard Garcia, 26, is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Jewett and inmate Bobby "Barbershop" Garcia. Bobby Garcia died a few hours after he was stabbed Feb. 26 during a disturbance in Cellblock 3, the maximum security unit at the jtate penitentiary.

Jewett died April 4 frcm stab wounds suffered whin he attempted to break up the attack on Bobby Garcia. Murder of a prison guard is a capita! offense, and Richard Garcia could be sentenced to death if convicted in Jewett's death. The three guard witnesses Wednesday essentially repeated the testimony they gave in late August at the trial of inmate Jesse Trujillo. Trujillo was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of Jewett and Bobby Garcia and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Officer Wayne Hecker said that Richard Garcia was asened as a porter on the south side of the main tier of the cellblock and had admitted into the guard station at the head cf i it 6 gt i mit mi I ff Sua mmm Bob Hope wwsi's iv -t ill! Wv i'V'' '-) 5m that oil.

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