By Katie Kull
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A St. Louis County man was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in prison for beating and stabbing a jail guard and shooting his girlfriend in the back in a separate incident.
James B. Brison, 44, and another inmate at the downtown City Justice Center attacked a corrections officer in June 2022. The guard suffered a broken hand and stab wounds to his head, face and arms, court records show.
At the time, Brison was in jail on charges he shot his girlfriend in the back after an argument in January 2022. Charges said Brison told the woman he would kill her, and she fled from the car.
The woman was later taken to a hospital. She survived.
Another inmate, 36-year-old Marcus Ausler, was also charged in the assault on the jail guard.
Those charges were dropped after he was convicted of a 2018 homicide in the city’s Greater Ville neighborhood and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Brison pleaded guilty Thursday to a half-dozen charges, including assault, armed criminal action and possession of a weapon at a jail.
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