Kory Saunders
Memorial for Kory Saunders
By a friend in San Quentin
A friend of Kory Saunders spoke to Ear Hustle, a non-fiction podcast run out of San Quentin State Prison in California. Listen to his tribute to Kory or read the transcript below.
“Kory Saunders passed away August 3rd [from] complications of COVID-19. We went to elementary school together. And we were talkin’ about him going home… he was gonna go home next month. When the pandemic hit and I come down and check on him, ‘Man, you good?’… ‘Yeah, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.’ Maybe like two weeks later, I come down to check on him and his cellie tell me, he’s like, ‘Oh yeah, man, your boy Sanders… yeah, he passed away.’ I went back to my cell, you know, like I dropped some tears, like, my boy gone. Kory was a cool dude. He always put somebody before him. If he got two soups, you need a soup, instead of him giving you one, he gon’ give you two. He was that type of person.”
From Mourning Our Losses:
At 40 years old, Kory Saunders passed away at Seton Medical Center while incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. He died on August 3rd, 2020, and his final resting place was in San Mateo County. We share our condolences with Kory’s friend, and we mourn Kory’s loss.
This part of the memorial was written by MOL team member Kira Grossfield with information from reporting by Lisa Fernandez of Fox 2.