30-year-old inmate accused in fatal altercation in Murrieta jail

MURRIETA (CNS) - An inmate at the Cois Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta died in an apparent altercation with another inmate, sheriff's officials said today.Deputies responded to an unresponsive inmate at around 4:20 p.m. Thursday, according to Sgt. Richard Carroll from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.Carroll said deputies and jail medical staff initiated medical aid, but despite live-saving measures, paramedics pronounced Ulyses Munoz Ayala, 39, dead. Details on the nature of his death were not immediately released.According to court records, Ayala was scheduled to be sentenced in two separate assault cases next Friday.Investigators with the Corrections Intelligence Bureau and Central Homicide Unit determined the inmate died in an altercation with another