By Nick Hytrek
Sioux City Journal, Iowa
FORT MADISON, Iowa — An Iowa prison inmate from Sioux City was found guilty Wednesday of stabbing two corrections officers.
After the Lee County jury found him guilty of two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of contraband, Anthony Bauer requested immediate sentencing. Senior Judge Mary Ann Brown sentenced him to 50 years in prison, to be served consecutively, or back to back, with the 50-year prison sentence he’s currently serving for his role the shooting death of a Sioux City teenager.
Bauer, 23, along with Dennis Lawson, 28, also of Sioux City, was charged with stabbing two corrections officers multiple times with makeshift knives Jan. 21 while doing schoolwork inside the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison.
According to court documents, one of the officers was handing out homework to Bauer and Lawson when the two took part in what appeared to be a coordinated attack in which each produced a shiv made from materials they had access to and had sharpened to be used as knives. The officer was repeatedly stabbed in the neck, throat, head, back and sides.
The second officer intervened and also was stabbed several times in the neck, throat, head, back and sides.
Several other officers responded to the alleged attack and forcefully gained control of Bauer and Lawson.
The two injured officers were treated at a local hospital and were released.
Bauer pleaded guilty in Woodbury County in 2021 to one count of second-degree murder and three counts of reckless use of a firearm in connection with the Jan. 1, 2021, shooting death of 18-year-old Mia Kritis at a Morningside home. He admitted to aiding and abetting in the shooting at 2636 Walker St. , where Kritis was among 20-25 people gathered for a New Year’s Eve party. Three others were injured when Bauer and at least one other person fired shots into the house.
Lawson is scheduled to stand trial in July on two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of contraband. He’s serving a 20-year prison sentence for a May 2020 shooting during a robbery and an illegal gun possession charge in an unrelated case.
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