Dennis Applewhite, 29 – who was locked away on a murder charge – went up to the 28-year-old officer and stabbed him in the back of the head with an eight-inch piece of sharpened metal inside the Anna M. Cross Center around 4:45 p.m. Oct. 31, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
A corrections officer at Rikers Island has been stabbed at least 15 times by an inmate in an “unprovoked, heinous and callous attack” on one of their officers.
A Department of Correction senior official said the attack happened around 4:45 p.m. Monday at the prison's mental health facility, the Anna M. Kross Center