Man serving pimping sentence is killed in California prison

A man serving a prison sentence for pimping was killed by another inmate, California corrections officials announced .

Shawn Jackson Jr., a 21-year-old incarcerated at the California State Prison in Corcoran, died Sunday afternoon after he was allegedly beaten by another inmate, Jarvis Richerson. The death is being investigated as a homicide.

Jackson was convicted of pimping in Orange County last year and began serving a four-year prison sentence in September.

He had been arrested at age 19 along with two other men and charged with sex trafficking a young woman and a girl under the age of 16, investigators said at the time .

Richerson, 31, has served numerous sentences for unlawful possession of a weapon. He is currently serving eight years for rape, inflicting corporal injury and assault with a firearm, the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation said.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times .