An inmate faces potential charges for attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed two prison guards with an improvised weapon Sunday morning.
It happened around 7:40 a.m. at California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster.
According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Michael O’Neill stabbed two guards with a shiv during breakfast.
“O’Neill began stabbing one officer with an improvised weapon. Another officer immediately responded, and O’Neill began attacking that officer as well,” CDCR officials wrote in a release.
Both guards were taken to an outside medical facility and were treated and released, officials said.
O’Neill was transported to another CDCR institution and was placed in restricted housing.
The investigation is ongoing, and officials said the weapon was recovered at the scene.
O’Neill, 42, has been in CDCR custody since a 2017 conviction for first-degree burglary, vehicle theft and other various “second-strike” offenses. In 2020, he was convicted in a violent armed robbery of an elderly person in Tuolumne County.
His case will be submitted to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office to consider additional charges.