Associated Press
WAUPUN, Wis. — A state prison inmate is charged with trying to kill another prisoner and with attacking a corrections officer.
A criminal complaint says 28-year-old Eric Conner attacked another inmate at the Waupun prison Monday because he continued to call him names. The two exchanged punches. The complaint says the prison guard approached the two and saw Conner had a homemade knife. Authorities say Conner attacked the guard before the officer was able to incapacitate him.
The injured guard was taken to Waupun Memorial Hospital. The Beaver Dam Daily Citizen reports Conner told investigators he planned to stab the other prisoner in the throat with a knife he had made from a hanger. Conner is at Waupun for fatally stabbing John Remmy of Menasha. Court records do no list a defense attorney.