An inmate in San Bernardino County jail tried to stab one other inmate and a sheriff’s deputy with a knife he made whereas incarcerated, authorities introduced Friday.
On Tuesday at about 2:45 p.m., Christopher Lommie Jackson tried to stab a 28-year-old inmate with a jail-made metallic knife on the West Valley Detention Heart in Rancho Cucamonga, in line with a Sheriff’s Division information launch.
After deputies arrived on the males’s cell, Jackson allegedly tried to stab a 45-year-old deputy and knocked him to the ground, the Sheriff’s Division mentioned. Different deputies intervened to cease the assault.
Video footage offered by the Sheriff’s Division reveals a person recognized as Jackson lunging towards the deputy with a knife in his hand and pulling the deputy to the bottom, the place the 2 get right into a wrestle till they’re separated by different deputies.
The deputy, whose id hasn’t been disclosed, was hospitalized for average accidents to his face and launched, authorities mentioned. It’s unclear if the opposite inmate was injured within the alleged assault.
Jackson, a 25-year-old San Bernardino resident, has been in custody since 2019 after accepting a plea deal in reference to a homicide case, courtroom information present. He was sentenced to 50 years to life in jail. Jackson can be charged with tried homicide in response to the alleged assault, officers mentioned.
“Such violent habits poses a severe menace to the protection and safety of our employees and inmate populations,” San Bernardino Sheriff Shannon Dicus mentioned within the launch.
