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Wabash Inmate Dies After Being Stabbed

Last updated on Wednesday, October 8, 2014

(CARLISLE) - A southwestern-Indiana prison has launched a murder investigation after officials said an inmate stabbed another to death.

Wabash Valley Correctional Facility spokesman Rich Larsen said the prison's police and internal-affairs investigators believe 34-year-old Jose Cruz stabbed fellow inmate, 35-year-old Oswaldo Quizaman, just after 6 p.m. Monday.

The two men were in the dayroom of the G cell house, Larsen said, which is within the north campus of the prison.

Investigators said Quizaman died in the ambulance on his way to Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes.

Quizaman's alleged murderer, Cruz, has been put in a restricted housing unit and has been said to refuse to speak with investigators on the stabbing.

Larsen said Indiana State Police (ISP) detectives and crime-scene technicians have come to the aid of the prison's investigators, but they have not been able to figure out why Cruz stabbed Quizaman.

Investigators did not say what kind of weapon was used in the stabbing.

Quizaman's autopsy will occur later Tuesday.

Quizaman was serving a 40-year sentence at the prison out of Elkhart County for dealing cocaine and meth. Cruz is serving 46 years out of St. Joseph County for dealing cocaine and felony possession of a firearm.

Cruz's earliest release date before the stabbing was March of 2032, but that may no longer be the case once he is charged and put on trial for the death of Quizaman.

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