BATON ROUGE - Prison officials confirmed to News 2 that convicted serial killed Derrick Todd Lee was rushed to the hospital from his confinement after an unknown medical issue.

Pam Laborde with the state Department of Corrections would not say what his condition was, or which hospital he was taken to.

Lee was linked by DNA to the deaths of several women around Baton Rouge and Lafayette, and convicted in 2004 of killing Geralyn DeSoto and Charlotte Murray Pace.

A jury sentenced Lee to death, and he was sent to Angola's death row.