LOWNDES COUNTY – An inmate previously housed at Lowndes County Adult Detention Center is recovering after he was allegedly stabbed in the neck by other inmates last week.
Two Lowndes inmates – Korey Gibbs, 39, and Javarion Davis, 21 – will be charged for the incident, Sheriff Eddie Hawkins told The Dispatch.
“We’ve got to get with the (district attorney’s) office and let them make that determination of what they’re going to charge,” he said. “It could be attempted murder, and it could be aggravated assault. That still remains to be seen.”
Hawkins said the altercation happened Friday as a group of inmates was cleaning the day room at the detention center.
“There was a broom that was in the day room that they were using to clean up, and they broke the broom handle and used it as a weapon,” he said.
The injured inmate, Hawkins said, was at the jail under custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. After the stabbing, he was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle and then transferred to a hospital in Jackson and released to MDOC custody.
The inmate is expected to recover, Hawkins said.
McRae is a general assignment and education reporter for The Dispatch.
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