By C1 Staff
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — An inmate in court for an attack on a corrections officer treated the whole thing like a joke as he was given an additional 20 years on top of his already lengthy 65-year sentence, chuckling and smirking his way through the proceedings.
CO Quinton Greer told the court that he feared he would die in a pool of his own blood when inmate Deadrian Boykins battered him into unconsciousness on Christmas Day of last year at the Allen County Jail, according to the Journal Gazette.
Greer was jumped from the side as he handled inmate’s lunches. Boykins hit him in the side of the head with a lunch tray unprovoked and pummeled him with his fists as the officer fell to the floor.
A deputy prosecutor counted more than 20 blows from Boykins to Greer’s head, according to statements. It’s believed that Boykins may have been trying to boost his reputation before he was transferred to the Department of Corrections, as the attack came shortly after his first sentencing.
Judge Fran Gull was unimpressed. “It’s unfortunate, Mr. Boykins, that you find this whole process so amusing,” she said. “I don’t. You choose to do what you choose to do.”
She also entered a judgment for $49,186 in restitution for Greer.