San Quentin​ Death Row Inmate Investigated For Guard Attack

SAN QUENTIN, CA — San Quentin State Prison officials are investigating an inmate attack on a correctional officer earlier this week, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said Friday.

A correctional officer was picking up food trays in a San Quentin housing unit Thursday around 9 a.m. when condemned inmate Todd Givens, 51, allegedly attacked the officer with a makeshift weapon made of two razor blades and a broken piece of nail clippers, according to the CDCR.

The officer grabbed the weapon and suffered a laceration as Givens allegedly pulled the weapon back. The officer, who had been reassigned to San Quentin as the prison grapples with a COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, received five stitches at a local hospital and was subsequently released.

Givens is currently on death row after being convicted in 2004 for first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, intentional discharge of a firearm that caused great bodily injury or death and arson of property and a structure on forest land.

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