DELANO — A man who was serving life for killing a longtime friend at a Livermore golf course was found dead in his prison cell here, state prison officials announced Friday.
Jacob Kober, 35, was stabbed multiple times in his Kern Valley State Prison cell on Thursday, authorities said. His cellmate, identified as 39-year-old Matthew Perez, also sustained injuries consistent with a “prison manufactured weapon,” says a news release by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Only Kober and Perez were in the cell at the time of the homicide, authorities said.
Kober was convicted and sentenced to life in 2015 for killing a friend, Kenneth Robert Ogden, 28, amid growing tension between the two men. Kober had previously accused his girlfriend of having sex with Ogden and they had a dispute over money as well, authorities said at the time. Kober made money selling drugs and lived within a few yards of a nearby golf course’s Fourth Hole, where Ogden’s body was found, according to court records.
Perez was serving a determinate term for assault with a firearm and gang activity, authorities said.
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
