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 An…
A Rikers Island inmate was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years behind bars for stabbing a city Correction officer in a brutal unprovoked attack last fall, prosecutors said.
Applewhite was rearrested and told the court during his arraignment a day later that he intended to plead guilty. He officially pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted assault in February, prosecutors said. “The defendant stabbed the victim, a DOC Correction Officer, a dozen times in the head with a sharpened metal,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark said in a statement. “This was a brazen, unprovoked attack against a Correction Officer who was working his shift in the Protective Custody Unit in Rikers Island.”
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