A prisoner was treated for multiple cuts after three other inmates attacked him Nov. 3 at Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus.
An officer monitoring programming in the prison’s Residential Rehabilitation Unit saw the attack begin with a punch to the head, according to a New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association account reported by CNYCentral.
Two other inmates joined the attack, one kicking the victim in the upper body while the other made stabbing motions toward him, the union said.
Correction officers intervened and separated the inmates.
The injured man was treated for cuts to his cheek, nose, chin, forearm, neck and ear.
A search afterward uncovered a gun-shaped object made from paper in a cell occupied by two of the inmates involved in the attack.
The object measured about 9 by 12 inches and had a magazine and an attached light pointer, but it could not fire, according to the union.
One inmate later handed over a black ceramic razor believed to have been used in the assault.
Two of the inmates were placed in the prison’s Special Housing Unit, and the recovered items were secured as evidence.
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