Clark County man serving life for kidnapping, assault dies in prison

An inmate committed from Clark County died Tuesday night at a Northern Nevada prison, corrections officials said.

Gene A. Montanio, 59, died at a medical facility inside the Northern Nevada Correctional Center, the state Department of Corrections announced Thursday.

Montanio was sent to prison from Clark County in June 1994. He was serving a life sentence for kidnapping and sexual assault. An autopsy will be performed to determine a cause of death.

Contact Blake Apgar at bapgar@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5298. Follow @blakeapgar on Twitter.

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