By Bill Lindelof
SacBee
SACRAMENTO — A second correctional officer in less than a week has been attacked and badly injured by a convicted murderer at California State Prison, Sacramento, according to correctional officials.
The latest injury occurred about 5:30 p.m. Saturday when prison staff was trying to conduct a random search of the cell housing convicted murderer Delvin E. Cottingham. Cottingham exited his cell and unexpectedly walked toward an officer.
He then punched the officer in the face, knocking him to the floor, according to a correctional department press release. Cottingham then allegedly straddled the officer’s chest and hit him in the face again.
A second officer came to the rescue and fended off the inmate. The injured officer, an eight-year veteran, was treated at a hospital. He suffered a bone fracture around his left eye, a fracture of both sides of his nasal cavity and abrasions on his forehead, nose, cheeks and eyes that required nine sutures.
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