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    Jonathan Henry Watson Charged in 2020 CA Murder of David Bobb





    Convicted child molester killed in inmate attack at California prison facility


    KABC-TV

    FRESNO, Calif. -- Authorities are investigating a homicide after an inmate attacked two other prisoners, including a convicted child molester, at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran on Thursday.

    Officials say 41-year-old Jonathan Watson attacked two other inmates with a weapon, causing severe injuries to their heads.

    As both men were rushed to a local hospital, 48-year-old David Bobb died from his injuries. State prison officials say he was serving a life sentence for aggravated sexual assault of a child.

    The second inmate is in critical condition at the hospital. His name has not been released.

    Investigators are working to determine what led up to the attack. Watson was transferred to Corcoran from Humboldt County serving time for first-degree murder.

    https://abc7.com/5858766/
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    2nd California child molester dies after inmate’s cane attack, authorities say

    By Dom Calicchio
    Fox News

    A second convicted child molester has died following a fellow inmate’s attack with a walking cane at a central California prison, authorities said Wednesday.

    The second victim was identified as Graham De Luis-Conti, 62. Authorities said he died in a hospital Sunday, three days after being struck in the head at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran, about 50 miles south of Fresno.

    Authorities initially said the second victim remained in critical condition Monday but the information was revised Wednesday.

    The suspect in the Jan. 16 beatings, inmate Jonathan Watson, 41, is also accused of killing David Bobb, 48, who died on the way to the hospital, authorities said.

    Bobb was also struck in the head multiple times.

    Watson has served 10 years of a life sentence for first-degree murder and discharging firearm causing great bodily injury or death.

    The motive of the cane attack remained under investigation, said spokeswoman Terri Hardy of the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

    De Luis-Conti had been imprisoned since June 2001 after receiving a life sentence for aggravated assault against a child under 14, FOX 26 of Fresno reported.

    Bobb had been serving a life sentence since October 2005 after receiving a life sentence for aggravated assault against a child under 14, the station reported.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/2nd-calif...uthorities-say

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    Inmate confesses killing 2 molesters in letter to newspaper

    CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — A California inmate serving a life sentence for murder confessed in a letter that he beat to death two child molesters with a cane hours after a prison counselor ignored his urgent warning that he might become violent.

    In a letter to the Bay Area News Group, Jonathan Watson, 41, said he clubbed both men in the head on Jan. 16 at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in the small central city of Corcoran.

    The first attack occurred after Watson became enraged that the one of the sex offenders was watching a children’s television show, the Northern California newspaper group reported Thursday,

    Prisoner David Bobb, 48, died that day. Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, died three days later at a hospital. Both were serving life sentences for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14.

    “We can’t comment on an active investigation,” Dana Simas, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, wrote in an email.

    Watson is serving a life sentence for a 2009 murder conviction.

    Days before the attack, he said his security classification was changed and he was transferred from a single-person cell to a lower-security dormitory pod at the Central Valley facility. Watson called the switch a “careless” mistake and said he had protested the decision.

    Watson wrote that six days after he arrived at the prison, a child molester moved into the pod. Watson believed the man began taunting other inmates by watching children’s television programming. Watson said in the letter he couldn’t sleep that night “having not done what every instinct told me I should’ve done right then and there.”

    Two hours before the attacks the next day, Watson told a prison counselor that he urgently needed to be transferred back to higher-level security “before I really (expletive) one of these dudes up,” but the counselor “scoffed and dismissed” him.

    Watson said he returned to his housing pod.

    “I was mulling it all over when along came Molester #1 and he put his TV right on PBS Kids again,” he wrote, according to the newspaper chain. “But this time, someone else said something to the effect of ‘Is this guy really going to watch this right in front of us?’ and I recall saying, ‘I got this.’ And I picked up the cane and went to work on him.”

    Watson said he then left the housing pod to find a guard and turn himself in, but on the way, he saw “a known child trafficker, and I figured I’d just do everybody a favor,” Watson wrote. “In for a penny, in for a pound.”

    Watson said he then told a guard, who didn’t believe him “until he looked around the corner and saw the mess I’d left in the dorm area,” Watson wrote.

    Watson is in segregated housing while he is under investigation for the killings. He hasn’t been charged yet.

    “Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position where I sometimes have access to these people and I have so little to lose,” Watson wrote. “And trust me, we get it, these people are every parents’ worst nightmare.”

    https://apnews.com/5cc084bc04b00e000771b3d9b7db2eb4

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