Overview
- Officials named the accused attacker as 32-year-old inmate John Holomon Russell.
- The assault occurred at 7:53 a.m. on Nov. 17 at River North Correctional Center in Independence, Virginia.
- Two other corrections officers were injured in the incident and have been treated and released from the hospital.
- Russell was serving a nearly 12-year sentence for convictions including a 2017 Fairfax County carjacking, a firearm offense, and a 2016 Albemarle shoplifting case.
- VADOC says the facility is secure, the Office of Law Enforcement Services is assisting, and Director Chad Dotson vowed to seek prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.