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Three men who allegedly took part in the fatal beating of a fellow jail inmate while they were in custody last fall in Chula Vista pleaded not guilty Friday to murder.
Lorenzo Ortiz, 25, Elijah Rivers, 25, and Edgar Rocha, 29, who are all currently serving state prison sentences, are accused along with two others in the beating death of 19-year-old Javier Solis Flores.
On Sept. 9, Flores was found inside his cell at the South Bay Detention Facility “with obvious signs of trauma,” according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. He died two days later. At the time, the department said the preliminary cause of Flores’ death was blunt force trauma to the head.