By Jamie Satterfield
Knoxville News-Sentinel
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An accused serial stalker convicted of raping one woman after allegedly twice failing to rape two more is now charged in a violent attack on Knox County Sheriff’s Office guards for seizing his stash of drink mix packets.
Unfazed by a stun gun, Lars Gunther Parker, 22, allegedly punched KCSO corrections officer Jordan Hurst in the face, caused a 4-inch gash on his arm and injured corrections officer Charles Dotson’s finger so badly authorities initially thought it was broken.
Warrants filed in the case state Parker’s ire came after guards searching his cell for drugs took his stash of powdered drink mix because he had more than allowed under jail rules.
“He stated that he was allowed to be in possession of that many packets for later in the day,” Hurst wrote. “I advised (him) he could not have the items. (Parker) bent over to pick up the items and stated, ‘I’m keeping them.’ ”
A struggle ensued. Hurst deployed his stun gun.
"(Parker) stated, ‘Is that all you got?’ ” Hurst wrote.
A team of guards ultimately gained control of Parker, whose history of attacks on other inmates has led jail officials to outfit him with a shock belt whenever he appears in court, records show.
Two counts of aggravated assault in connection with the August incident have now been added to the list of charges Parker already faced in a string of attacks on women in a neighborhood off Westland Drive in late 2010 and early 2011.
Parker allegedly stalked women in his neighborhood and broke into their homes when they were alone. In the first case, Parker allegedly lost his nerve after threatening rape and fled. In the second, Parker allegedly attacked the woman but she fought him off. In the third, the woman was raped. A DNA match led to Parker’s arrest.
Parker was set to be sentenced this month in the third attack — charges are still pending in the other two — but Knox County Criminal Court Judge Scott Green delayed it until Jan. 30 to give his new attorney, Bob Jolley, time to prepare. Jolley replaced the late Bruce Poston, who died in a car crash earlier this year.