Crime & Safety

Murder Trial Starts for Convict Already Facing Decades in Prison

David Ray Bartol was recently sentenced to more than 50 years. Now he faces a possible death penalty.

David Ray Bartol, who earlier this year was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison for two separate attacks in which gang associates were tortured, goes on trial Monday for allegedly killing a fellow inmate.

Bartol, who was serving 18 years in the Marion County Jail for a home invasion robbery, allegedly plunged a sharpened object into the eye of a fellow inmate and pounded at it with one of his sandals.

The inmate died several days later.

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If the jury convicts him, they will then have to decide whether he should receive the death penalty.

Prosecutors have said Bartol was a member of the Krude Rude Brood gang.

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Photo courtesy Multnomah County Sheriff's Office

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