Convicted killer of college student Kristin Smart attacked at California prison for second time

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Convicted ******* of college student Kristin Smart attacked at California prison for second time

COALINGA, Calif. (AP) — Paul Flores, the

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, was stabbed Wednesday at a California prison, the second time he has been attacked by a fellow inmate in the past year, officials said.

Staff witnessed the stabbing shortly before 3:30 p.m. in the recreation yard at Pleasant Valley State Prison and were able to end the ******** using verbal commands, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

An injured Flores, 47, was transported to an outside medical facility for treatment and later returned to the prison in fair condition, officials said.

The inmate suspected in the ********, whose name was not released, was placed in restricted housing, the corrections department said. The ******* is being investigated as an attempted *********.

Two suspected inmate-manufactured weapons were recovered, the department said. No other staff or incarcerated people were injured.

Flores was slashed in the neck in August by another inmate in the yard of the same prison in Coalinga in central California. Flores was hospitalized and returned to the prison two days later.

The man accused in that *******,

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, has pleaded not guilty to felony charges including attempted ******* and ******** by an inmate serving a life sentence.

Authorities didn’t mention possible motives for either *******.

Flores is serving a sentence of 25 years to life for the ******* of Smart, a 19-year-old who disappeared from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo over Memorial Day weekend in 1996.

Prosecutors maintained Flores ******* Smart during an attempted ***** in his dorm room at the university, where both were first-year students. He was the last person seen with Smart as he walked her home from an off-campus party. Her body was never found.

Flores was arrested in 2021, convicted in 2022 and

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last year.

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