Correctional officers stabbed by inmate
Two Hamilton County correctional officers were stabbed at the Silverdale Detention Center early Thursday morning as they attempted to stop an altercation between inmates, according to a news release from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office.
The officers were transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries once the incident was under control, according to the release.
“The injuries deputies Bradley Steinburg and James Lewis sustained in this altercation represent the ever-present challenges and serious dangers our corrections services personnel face on a daily basis while performing their duties,” Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett said in the release. “Despite the perilous dangers a homemade shank posed to their personal safety, they took immediate action and gained control of the situation even as one of them was being stabbed in the forehead. We are fortunate they were not killed while responding to this incident. Both of them showed great courage and heroism in their response to protect the safety and life of these two inmates who were the apparent intended targets of this incident.”
Lewis and Steinburg were delivering medications around 3:20 a.m. when they were injured, according to the news release.
One of the officers opened a cell door to deliver medications, and an inmate identified as Daques De’l Davis, rushed out, pushed through the door and ran toward two other inmates who were in a common area during their assigned recreation time, according to the release.
“Davis had a homemade weapon (shank) and was attempting to stab the two inmates,” the release said. “As the two corrections deputies attempted to intervene … Davis used his homemade weapon (shank) to cut one corrections deputy on his wrist and stab another on the forehead twice.”
Davis — whose criminal record includes homicide charges in 2022 and domestic assault charges in 2018, according to Hamilton County court records — was charged with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault on a deputy and possession of a weapon in a penal institution stemming from Thursday’s incident.
He is due to appear before Hamilton County General Sessions Court Judge Larry Ables on Tuesday.