Two Prisoners At Fed Med Indicted For Fellow Inmates Death In January:

Federal Medical Center For Prisoners--Springfield, MO

Two prisoners at the Federal Medical Center for Prisoners in Springfield have been charged with murder for the death of a fellow inmate last January.

Repeated attempts to obtain the April indictments were unsuccessful. They were finally forwarded to The Ozarks Sentinel this morning.

A grand jury indicted Wesley Paul Coonce Jr., 30, Mansfield, Texas, and Charles Michael Hall, 39, for the January 26th murder of Victor Castro-Rodriquez.

Castro-Rodriquez, 51, who was incarcerated "because he was dangerous due to mental illness" was found unresponsive in his cell. After failed attempts to resuscitate him, Castro-Rodriquez was pronounced dead about 8:40 p.m.

Warden Marty Anderson says that Castro-Rodriquez, who was from southern Florida had been incarcerated at the Fed Med since 2002, and did not have a cell mate.

The indictments state:

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  1. The death or injuries resulting in death, occurred during the commission or
  attempted commission, of an offense (murder by prisoner serving life
  term.)


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  2. The defendant has previously been convicted of 2 or more Federal or State
  offenses punishable by a term of imprisonment of more than 1 year, committed on different occasions, involving the infliction of, or attempted infliction of, serious bodily injury or death.


• 3. The defendant committed the offense in an especially heinous, cruel, or depraved
  manner in that it involved torture or serious physical abuse to Victor Castro-Rodriguez.


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  4. The defendant committed the offense after substantial planning and premeditation
  to cause the death of Victor Castro-Rodriguez.


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  5. The victim, Victor Castro-Rodriguez, was particularly vulnerable due to infirmity,
  in this case, mental illness.

Coonce was sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and carjacking a woman from the parking lot of a Fort Worth grocery store in March of 2002.

Coonce sexually assaulted the woman in Texas and Oklahoma then told her he was taking her to Michigan.

The woman told authorities that after Coonce stopped for gas in Missouri, she grabbed the truck keys off the store counter when he turned away. She ran back to the truck and attempted to flee but the emergency brake was engaged. When she ran back into the convenience store and asked the clerk to call police, Coonce fled in her pickup.

Charles Michael Hall is incarcerated for mailing threatening letters in Maine. He is scheduled to be released from prison on September 27, 2018.