FRESNO — Former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips is suspected of killing his cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison, officials said Monday.
Phillips’ cellmate was found lifeless early Saturday and later pronounced dead, prison spokesman Lt. Marshall Denning said in a statement.
Phillips, 39, was once one of the nation’s top college football players at Nebraska. He played for the St. Louis Rams, until being released in 1997 for insubordination. He played eight games for the 49ers in 1999 and also played briefly for the Dolphins.
Phillips is serving a sentence of more than 31 years. He was convicted of twice choking his girlfriend in 2005 in San Diego and later that year of driving his car into three teens after a pickup football game in Los Angeles.
He is suspected of killing Damion Soward, a 37-year-old inmate from San Bernardino County serving 82 years to life for a first-degree murder conviction.
Officials said a second inmate is suspected of killing his cellmate at the prison, but it’s unclear whether the two cases are related.
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