By Thomas Prohaska
The Buffalo News
LOCKPORT — Ramone D. Walker of Lockport will not be prosecuted further in connection with an incident that inflicted career-ending injuries on a Niagara County corrections officer.
Defense attorney Dominic Saraceno said he learned that a county grand jury earlier this month refused to indict Walker, 37, after two previous indictments had been dismissed by County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III. Walker had been charged with second-degree assault on a police officer in the wake of the Aug. 26, 2011, altercation in the County Jail visitor area that injured Corrections Officer Mark A. Crawley, 46.
According to grand jury testimony Murphy quoted in his Nov. 13 decision to dismiss the second indictment, Crawley, who joined the Sheriff’s Office in June 1996, suffered a broken back. He underwent surgery in March in Erie County Medical Center to insert eight screws and two rods in his spinal column, remove part of his vertebrae and perform various grafts.
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