Associated Press
SUNBURY — A white supremacist imprisoned for killing a county jail cellmate three years ago has now been convicted of slashing the throat of a Hispanic corrections officer at a state prison in Northumberland County.
Twenty-four-year-old William Amos Cramer claimed he was just defending himself from racial prejudice by non-white inmates and guards at the State Correctional Institution-Coal Township.
He had claimed the guard didn’t help him and even instigated abuse by non-white inmates.
A jury deliberated less than an hour before finding Cramer used a razor-like weapon to slice the neck of Correctional Officer Francisco Charriez on August 31, 2014.
Cramer represented himself and says he’ll appeal the verdict.
He is already serving a life sentence at the state prison in Mahanoy for the Cambria County jail murder.
A sentencing date for Thursday’s conviction hasn’t been set.