RICHARD OCHOA
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Officer Rank: Officer
Memorial Panel: 30-E: 21
Department: California Department of Corrections
End of Watch: April 26, 1976
Cause: BEAT
Age: 39
Years of Service: 5
Description: Correctional Officer Ochoa was bludgeoned to death while working at San Quentin. Officer Ochoa was found unconscious with head injuries by another guard who sounded a whistle. He was rushed to the prison hospital but died a short time later. Three inmates were suspected of attacking him with a weightlifting bar.
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