The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced Tuesday that the infamous Aryan Brotherhood hitman Curtis Floyd Price has died in jail Monday.
Price is believed to have died of natural causes at around 2 a.m. at the San Quentin State Prison where he’d been awaiting execution.
He was convicted of accepting a “contract” with the Aryan Brotherhood gang to slaughter a former member’s father when he decided to leave the gang in 1983.
After shooting Richard Barnes dead at his Los Angeles home with three gunshot wounds in the back of his head.
Witness Elizabeth Ann Hickey was beaten to death days later inside a Humboldt residence that was also burglarized.
The 74-year-old’s official cause of death is being determined by the Marin County Coroner.
