Five California prisoners allegedly killed a Pittsburgh man serving a life sentence for the murder of a magazine editor

REPRESENTATION — Five men — including an Oakland native already implicated in three other killings — are suspected of killing a fellow inmate at California State Prison in Sacramento on Friday, authorities said.

The victim of the dayroom attack was Darryl Hudson, a 40-year-old Pittsburgh native who was serving a life sentence for the murder of a PC World magazine editor during a home invasion. State prison officials said Hudson was attacked by five men, lost consciousness during the attack and later died of his injuries. They did not say whether a weapon was used or whether a motive had been discovered.

The attackers were identified in a news release from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as Darryn Mayberry, 30, Robert Keller, 38, Tray Watson, 58, Marcell Battiest, 29, and Otis Wyatt, 27. They have been placed in administrative segregation, authorities said.

Wyatt was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison earlier this year after being convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Darrell Daniel in 2016. He also pleaded not guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter in connection with a 2016 shooting at an Oakland birthday party that killed Craig Fletcher-Cooks, 20, and Terrence McCrary, 22, for a concurrent 21-year sentence that was criticized by family members of both victims.

Battiest and Keller were serving murder sentences in Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, respectively, and Watson was serving an 18-year sentence for robbery, authorities said.

Hudson was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2009 for the murder of Rex Farrance, a 59-year-old PC World editor who was targeted for growing marijuana, authorities said at the time. Four men broke into his home on Jan. 9, 2007. Police believed Hudson personally killed Farrance, which he denied at his sentencing hearing.

“Honestly, they got the wrong guy,” Hudson said at the end of the hearing.