Convicted rapist, murderer attacked in prison
Posted at: 11/16/2011 11:24 PM | Updated at: 11/17/2011 1:02 PM
 Michael Guzman |
A man convicted of raping and murdering one UNM student and raping another back in the early 1980's is at UNM Hospital on life support after being attacked by fellow inmates in prison.
The Corrections Department said Michael Guzman was attacked by more than a dozen inmates just two days after he was moved to a private prison in Clayton.
His family wants answers about the attack.
Guzman's sister said she is not being allowed to visit him at the hospital because he is an inmate.
She has problems with that and wants to know more about the prison attack.
"I do have a lot of serious questions about the investigation because if my brother was indeed jumped by 15 inmates, he should have some facial damage," she said.
Officials said Guzman was not stabbed, but they cannot say if any other weapons were used. He is in intensive care with other patients, along with special security, which is why family is not allowed in to see him.
Corrections said Guzman was moved to Clayton because he had problems with other inmates at the prison in Santa Rosa.
Guzman kidnapped the two UNM students at knife point, put them in the trunk of his car, took them out to Tijeras Canyon and raped them back in 1981. He killed one and tried to kill the other, but she survived.
Guzman was originally sentenced t o death, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison.
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