A Tucson-area man serving a 22-year sentence for a double murder has died in state prison in what authorities say is a suspected homicide.
Charlie M. Wooden, 34, was found unresponsive in his assigned bunk Monday night at a medium security state prison complex in Buckeye, authorities said. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful.
Arizona Department of Corrections investigators "suspect foul play was involved and have identified potential suspects," the department said in a news release Tuesday.
"While the investigation is ongoing, the department intends to fully pursue criminal prosecution in this case," the department said.
Wooden was sentenced to prison in 2017 for two counts of second-degree murder in the 2013 deaths of Vanessa Buster, 22, and Pluma-Blanca Jose manual Navarro Cazares, 23.
The victims were residents of Three Points west of Tucson. Wooden also was known to have lived in the Three Points area, and well as in the Drexel Heights area, according to Star archives.
