By: Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A convicted murderer serving a sentence of life without parole for the past 31 years has been given an additional five years of incarceration for attacking a guard on July 4, 2020, while he was being held in the Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing.
Dong Ho Son, 62, who was transferred to the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, pleaded guilty last week by video from prison to assault and battery on a corrections officer in Payne County, court records show.
Cushing Police Officer Kurt McKean wrote in an affidavit that a guard said he was conducting medicine passes with a nurse in the private prison when “an inmate cut him with a razor blade through the bean hole door on his cell.”
The injured guard provided a report from prison Investigator Greg Jones including pictures that showed a small laceration on the guard’s left forearm, the affidavit said.
“I was able to watch the Echo Charlie unit’s security footage,” showing at 3:48 pm, the injured guard “was seen walking cell to cell with an unidentified nurse at that time on the top tier of the unit,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
“When the two stopped in front of one particular cell, (the guard) was seen slightly wincing in a startling motion, followed by him stepping away from the cell and looking at his left arm,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
Son had been convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in Cleveland County on Nov. 17, 1989, and sentenced on Jan. 5, 1990, to life in prison without the possibility of parole, DOC and court records show.
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