By Alex Burness
The Daily Camera
BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — A Boulder County jail deputy lost part of a finger Saturday after sheriff’s officials said a belligerent inmate kicked a metal door closed while her hand was on the doorjamb.
According to sheriff’s Sgt. Clay Leak, Crystal M. Baucom, a 23-year-old inmate, became combative while taking a shower, and “forcefully kicked” a metal jail door closed on a female deputy, whose name has not been released.
“The jail deputy’s hand was on the doorjamb at the time,” a news release from the sheriff’s office reads. “When the door slammed closed, it completely severed the last digit of the deputy’s ring finger at the base of the fingernail.”
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