US prisoner charged with attempted murder over stabbing of Derek Chauvin
by Associated Press from US news | The Guardian on (#6GTS0)
John Turscak, 52, accused of stabbing Chauvin, convicted of George Floyd's murder, 22 times in prison in Tucson, Arizona
A detainee at a federal prison was charged on Friday with attempted murder in the prison stabbing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd.
John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times in the law library at the Tucson federal correctional institution in Arizona with an improvised knife, prosecutors said. Turscak, 52, told correctional officers he would have killed Chauvin had they not responded so quickly, according to prosecutors.
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