Crime & Safety
Livermore Man Serving Life For Murdering Friend Is Killed In Prison
A Livermore man serving life in prison for a 2012 murder was found fatally wounded in his cell corrections officials said Friday.
LIVERMORE, CA — A Livermore man serving life in prison for a 2012 murder in a dispute over money and a romantic rivalry was found fatally wounded in his cell, corrections officials said Friday.
Jacob Kober, 35, was pronounced dead at 7:52 p.m. Thursday at Kern Valley State Prison with injuries consistent with an improvised weapon made in prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement. His cellmate, Matthew Perez, was injured.
Prison officials are investigating Kober's death as a homicide.
Kober was imprisoned for murdering a former friend on a Livermore golf course in 2012, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
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Prosecutors said Kober and 28-year-old Kenneth Robert Ogden were old friends who had a falling out because Ogden owed Kober money and Kober thought Ogden tried to kiss his girlfriend.
The two went to the Springtown Golf Course the night of the murder to talk things over, but once they walked out onto the grass, Kober shot Ogden in the left arm and the right side, prosecutors said.
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A woman jogging the next morning found Ogden's body lying in the grass along a fairway on the course.
Kober fled to Oakland and then Oregon to avoid arrest and allegedly sent threatening text messages to witnesses in the case. He was arrested in Oregon on Jan. 16, 2013, and was extradited to California to face the murder charge.
Kober's cellmate, Perez, 39, was convicted in Monterey County of assault with a firearm, with enhancements for a street gang act in commission of a violent felony.
In 2014, while in prison, Perez was sentenced to eight years for assault by a prisoner with a deadly weapon or force likely to cause great bodily injury. In 2016, he was sentenced to two years for possession of a controlled substance while in prison.
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