The inmate is facing potential charges of attempted murder after being allegedly stabbed two prison guards with improvised weapons Sunday morning.
It happened at the California State Jail in Los Angeles County, Lancaster, around 7:40am.
According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Michael O’Neill stabbed two security guards with SHIV during breakfast.
“O’Neill began stabbing one officer with an improvised weapon. Another officer responded quickly, and O’Neill also began attacking the officer,” a CDCR official wrote on release.
Both security guards were taken to an external medical facility where they were treated and released, officials said.
Michael P. O’Neill, 42, is shown in a magshot from the California Department of Corrections and Corrections on May 17, 2024.
O’Neill was taken to another CDCR agency and placed in a restricted home.
The investigation is ongoing and officials said the weapons had been recovered at the scene.
O’Neill, 42, has been in CDCR custody since his conviction in 2017 for first-degree robbery, vehicle theft and various other “second strike” crimes. In 2020 he was convicted of violent armed robbery of an elderly person in Tuolumne County.
His case will be filed with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office to consider additional charges.
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