A man serving life behind bars for the murder of a PC World editor has died in a prison fight that is being investigated as a homicide, state corrections officials said Saturday.
Forty-year-old Darryl W. Hudson died Friday, a day after he fought with five other prisoners at California State Prison, Sacramento in Folsom, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.
Hudson was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in 2009 in the killing of PC World editor Rex Farrance and pistol-whipping of his wife during a home-invasion robbery in Pittsburg.
Farrance, a senior technical editor at PC World magazine in San Francisco, was home with his wife, Lenore van Tosh-Farrance, on Jan. 9, 2007, when a group of masked men kicked in the front door, Contra Costa County prosecutor Harold Jewett said during the trial.
“Where’s the money, bitch,” one of the men asked Tosh-Farrance and pistol-whipped her. Jewett said one of the men, believed to be Hudson, shot Farrance once in the chest from three or four feet away.
The men took Farrance’s gun safe, some marijuana and a laptop computer. Jewett said the house was most likely targeted because Farrance and his son were growing marijuana in the attic.
Hudson was sentenced to life for first-degree murder and first-degree robbery, with enhancements for using a firearm, and for assault with a firearm.
A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge declared a mistrial for Hudson’s co-defendant, Montrell Hall, after the jury said it was hopelessly deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict.
Prison officials said Hudson began fighting with Darryn W. Mayberry and four other prisoners in a dayroom about 2:55 p.m. Thursday. Mayberry allegedly struck Hudson several times, causing him to lose consciousness, the corrections department said.
Hudson was taken by ambulance to an outside medical facility where he was pronounced dead Friday night. No staff or additional incarcerated individuals were injured.
In 2021, while an inmate, Hudson was sentenced by a Kern County court to seven years for battery on a non-prisoner with an enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury, according to the corrections department.
Mayberry and four other inmates have been placed in restricted housing pending an investigation by the Sacramento prison’s Investigative Services Unit and the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office.
Mayberry, 30, has been serving 10 years for second-degree robbery as a second striker with enhancements for having been convicted of prior felonies.
California State Prison, Sacramento is a high-security facility in Folsom that houses about 1,990 incarcerated people, the corrections department said.
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Rot in hell, dirtbag scum.
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One less convicted FELON that CA state legislature democrats won’t have a chance to back on our streets.
What a loss to our society. Tragic to know our tax dollars will be spent elsewhere.
“oh damn….what a loss” “Adios turd”o!”
Something rational people do understand, there are straight up predatory individuals, with ZERO empathy for their victims who lack impulse control and in many cases rational thought processes, who DO NOT belong on our streets. California state legislature democrats evidently are incapable of grasping that fact, OR is it they flat out really DON’T CARE how many Californians will injured or killed by convicted Felons they release.
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For more go to Talk About Politics post August 25, 2024 – 11:52 AM
100% correct, when these people wake up in the morning they don’t think about going to work or “I need to pay this bill, or my kids need clothes” and so on…. they simply see the sun come up and find their next score. It is a totally different way of thinking. This is savagery outside of civilized society.
Let it be now known: Darryl W. Hudson has fulfilled the obligations of his “Life” sentence.
Here’s to 🥂 Karma
Great, the trash took out the trash, I’m sure some bleeding heart lib was fighting to free him back to society because he’s AA and they do no wrong in California, this is why I’m ok with tax dollars being used to lock up people
These comments kill me!!!! Too soon?
My daughter was good friends with the Farrance family and their daughter of the same age as mine. This was devastating for our community.
Awww..Poor baby!
5 against 1 ?
That seems fair…. considering what he did.
At least his attackers didn’t have guns.
Noting the irony of a couple of posts here regarding a convicted felon and somehow equating it with Democrats.
The Democrats are the only major party not supporting a convicted felon as their presidential candidate. Make that 34 times convicted felon.
Right. Democrats are supporting a full blown socialist who slept her way to higher office early in her career, and a running mate who embellishes his otherwise honorable military service with borderline stolen valor and believes “hate speech” and “misinformation” are not protected under the First Amendment. All of that versus 34 purely political felony convictions. I assume you believe you have the moral high road here. You don’t.
More tropes and canards promoted via the right wing propaganda channel ecosystem. Future President Harris was elected as SF District Attorney, California Attorney General and California United States Senator. That’s not sleeping one’s way to higher office. That’s getting elected in free and fair elections.
The 34 felony convictions weren’t “political”. Trump was found guilty by a jury of his peers. Full stop.
There is no “moral high road” with Trump and Trumpism. None.
I’m impressed to see a misdemeanor that had exceeded the statute of limitations being revived and transformed into 34 felony charges!