Attempted Murder Charge In Stabbing Of Chauvin

The Associated Press reports:

An incarcerated former gang member and FBI informant was charged Friday with attempted murder in the stabbing last week of ex-Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at a federal prison in Arizona.

John Turscak stabbed Chauvin 22 times at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tucson and said he would’ve killed Chauvin had correctional officers not responded so quickly, federal prosecutors said.

Turscak, serving a 30-year sentence for crimes committed while a member of the Mexican Mafia gang, told investigators he thought about attacking Chauvin for about a month because the former officer, convicted of murdering George Floyd, is a high-profile inmate, prosecutors said.

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A federal inmate was charged with attempted murder in the prison stabbing of Derek Chauvin. The ex-Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd was stabbed 22 times in the law library at the Tucson, Arizona, prison, prosecutors said. https://t.co/23kAIwFjby

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